Hormone replacement therapy is associated with lower risk of adenomatous polyps of the large bowel: The Minnesota Cancer Prevention Research Unit case-control study

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 779-784

  Potter, John D ^a,c   Bostick, Roberd M ^a,d   Grandits, Gregory A ^a   Fosdick, Lisa ^a   Elmer, Patricia ^a   Wood, James ^b   Grambsch, Patricia ^a   Louis, Thomas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Digestive Healthcare PA   (United States)

^c Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^d WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOMATOUS POLYP; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; COLON TUMOR; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; INTESTINE POLYP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLONIC POLYPS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0029858156     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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