Replacement Estrogens and Endometrial Cancer

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 300, Issue 5, 1979, Pages 218-222

  Jick, Hershel ^a,b,c   Watkins, Richard N ^a,b,c   Hunter, Judith R ^a,b,c   Dinan, Barbara J ^a,b,c   Madsen, Sue ^a,b,c   Rothman, Kenneth J ^a,b,c   Walker, Alexander M ^a,b,c  

^a Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Program   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR HEALTH STUDIES   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED ESTROGEN;

CARCINOGENESIS; DRUG THERAPY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; THERAPY;

EID: 0018741823     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM197902013000502     Document Type: Article

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