Treatment for infertility and risk of invasive epithelial ovarian cancer

Human Reproduction

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2159-2161

  Parazzini, Fabio ^a,b,c   Negri, Eva ^a   La Vecchia, Carlo ^a,b   Moroni, Simona ^a   Franceschi, Silvia ^d   Crosignani, Pier Giorgio ^b  

^a MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^d CENTRO DI RIFERIMENTO ONCOLOGICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Infertility drugs; Ovarian cancer; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

FERTILITY PROMOTING AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVARY CANCER; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030817772     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/12.10.2159     Document Type: Article

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