Hormone replacement therapy and risk of colon and rectal cancer

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 329-333

  Fernandez, Esteve ^a,b   La Vecchia, Carlo ^a,c   Braga, Claudia ^a   Talamini, Renato ^d   Negri, Eva ^a   Parazzini, Fabio ^a   Franceschi, Silvia ^d  

^a MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d CENTRO DI RIFERIMENTO ONCOLOGICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; SEX HORMONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MIDDLE AGED; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0031927679     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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