Breast Cancer and the Environment: A Life Course Approach

by Committee on Breast Cancer and the Envir, Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine, et al.

Breast cancer remains the most common invasive cancer among women. The primary patients of breast cancer are adult women who are approaching or have reached menopause; 90 percent of new cases in U.S. women in 2009 were diagnosed at age 45 or older. Growing knowledge of the complexity of breast cancer stimulated a transition in breast cancer research toward elucidating how external factors may influence the etiology of breast cancer. Breast Cancer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309220696
• ISBN13: 9780309220699
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 9.0"