Cancer Incidence in a Cohort of Infertile Women

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 147, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1038-1042

  Modan, Baruch ^a,b   Ron, Elaine ^c   Lerner Geva, Liat ^a   Blumstein, Tzvia ^a   Menczer, Joseph ^d   Rabinovici, Jaron ^a   Oelsner, Gabriel ^a   Freedman, Laurence ^a   Mashiach, Shlomo ^a   Lunenfeld, Bruno ^e  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^e BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms; Endometrial neoplasms; Infertility; Ovarian neoplasms; Ovulation induction

Indexed keywords

CLOMIFENE; ESTROGEN; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; PROGESTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INFERTILITY; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NULLIPARA; OBESITY; OVARY CANCER; OVULATION INDUCTION; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLOMIPHENE; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FERTILITY AGENTS, FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; GONADOTROPINS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; ISRAEL; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PROGESTERONE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0032102946     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a009397     Document Type: Article

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