Reproductive health care policies around the world - Fertility drugs and ovarian epithelial cancer: Is there a link?

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 751-756

  Paulson, Richard J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROMOCRIPTINE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CLOMIFENE CITRATE; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN;

AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NOTE; OVARY CARCINOMA; OVULATION INDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CLOMIPHENE; FEMALE; FERTILITY AGENTS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MENOTROPINS; NEOPLASMS, GLANDULAR AND EPITHELIAL; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0030472716     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02066492     Document Type: Article

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