Models of breast cancer show that risk is set by events of early life: prevention efforts must shift focus.

Folate, Methionine, and Alcohol Intake and Risk of Colorectal Adenoma

1993 • 712 citations

‘Hormonal’ risk factors, ‘breast tissue age’ and the age-incidence of breast cancer

1983 • 670 citations

Comparative Study of Human and Rat Mammary Tumorigenesis

1990 • 585 citations

Transient Increase in the Risk of Breast Cancer after Giving Birth

1994 • 549 citations

Breast Cancer After Treatment of Hodgkin's Disease

1993 • 547 citations

Lactation and a Reduced Risk of Premenopausal Breast Cancer

1994 • 535 citations

Reproductive Risk Factors in a Prospective Study of Breast Cancer: The Nurses' Health Study

1994 • 360 citations

A Prospective Study of the Intake of Vitamins C, E, and A and the Risk of Breast Cancer

1993 • 308 citations

Incidence of Female Breast Cancer among Atomic Bomb Survivors, 1950-1985

1994 • 282 citations

Secular Growth Changes

1978 • 269 citations

The Risk of Breast Cancer after Irradiation of the Thymus in Infancy

1989 • 253 citations

Social indicators of development

1996 • 243 citations

Dietary Fat and Sports Activity as Determinants for Age at Menarche

1993 • 241 citations

Inherited Breast and Ovarian Cancer

1993 • 234 citations

Age at any birth and breast cancer risk

1983 • 231 citations

A unifying concept of the aetiology of breast cancer

1988 • 180 citations

Alcohol Consumption and Breast Cancer

1987 • 176 citations

Age and marital status at first birth and the pace of subsequent fertility

1978 • 169 citations

EVIDENCE FOR A CROSSOVER IN BREAST CANCER RISK FACTORS1

1982 • 136 citations

Alcohol Consumption and Risk of Breast Cancer: A Review of the Epidemiologic Evidence

1993 • 134 citations

SOCIAL CLASS AND THE BLACK/WHITE CROSSOVER IN THE AGE-SPECIFIC INCIDENCE OF BREAST CANCER: A STUDY LINKING CENSUS-DERIVED DATA TO POPULATION-BASED REGISTRY RECORDS

1990 • 126 citations

Human Chorionic Gonadotropin and Rat Mammary Cancer Prevention

1990 • 108 citations

Cigarette Smoking, Alcohol Consumption, and Breast Cancer Risk

1987 • 105 citations

Alcohol consumption and the risk of breast cancer in a prepaid health plan.

1988 • 104 citations

Cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption and risk of breast cancer in young women

1988 • 96 citations

Dual effect of parity on breast cancer risk

1994 • 96 citations

Breast Cancer and Cigarette Smoking: A Hypothesis

1991 • 94 citations

Alcohol Dose, Frequency and Age at First Exposure in Relation to the Risk of Breast Cancer

1989 • 82 citations

Nutrition, body size, and breast cancer

1985 • 64 citations

CIGARETTE SMOKING AND BREAST CANCER1

1986 • 63 citations

Changing ratio of breast cancer incidence rates with age of black females compared with white females in the United States.

1980 • 61 citations

A case—control study of breast cancer and alcohol consumption habits

1989 • 59 citations

Menarcheal age in University of Warwick young women

1993 • 59 citations

Smoking, Alcohol, and Plasma Levels of Carotenes and Vitamin Ea

1993 • 43 citations

Pilot trial of a gonadotropin hormone agonist with replacement hormones as a prototype contraceptive to prevent breast cancer

1993 • 36 citations

Physiological bases of breast cancer prevention

1993 • 35 citations

Ethics and Economics of Genetic Testing for Breast Cancer

1995 • 2 citations