Hormonal factors and risk of ovarian germ cell cancer in young women

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 1988, Pages 418-422

  Walker, A H ^a   Ross, R K ^a   Haile, R W C ^b   Henderson, B E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; ESTROGEN; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

FEMALE; HUMAN; OVARY CANCER; THEORETICAL STUDY;

BIOLOGY; CANCER; CONTROL GROUPS; DATA COLLECTION; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL--ADMINISTRACTION AND DOSAGE; DISEASES; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ESTROGENS; FAMILY PLANNING; GENITALIA; GERM CELLS--CHANGES; HISTOLOGY; HORMONES--ADMINISTRACTION AND DOSAGE; NEOPLASMS; OVARIAN CANCER--ETIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE CONTROL AGENTS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RISK FACTORS; UROGENITAL SYSTEM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY WEIGHT; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; DYSGERMINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENSTRUATION; NAUSEA; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TESTS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RISK FACTORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TERATOMA;

EID: 0023924647     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.1988.95     Document Type: Article

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