Serum sex hormone levels after menopause and subsequent breast cancer

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 291-296

  Berrino, Franco ^a   Muti, Paola ^a   Micheli, Andrea ^a   Bolelli, Gianfranco ^b   Krogh, Vittorio ^a   Sciajno, Raffaella ^a,b   Pisani, Paola ^c   Panico, Salvatore ^d   Secreto, Giorgio ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; PRASTERONE SULFATE; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AGED; ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENOPAUSE; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX HORMONE-BINDING GLOBULIN;

EID: 0029862593     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/88.5.291     Document Type: Article

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