The nature of tamoxifen action in the control of female breast cancer

In Vivo

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 319-325

  Kodama, M ^a   Kodama, T ^a  

^a Kodama Res Inst of Prev Medicine   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alteration of cancer site; Alteration of hormonal environment; Promotion of endometrial cancer; Steroid chimera; Steroid criminal hypothesis; Suppression of breast cancer; Tamoxifen

Indexed keywords

7,12 DIMETHYLBENZ[A]ANTHRACENE; ANTIESTROGEN; CARCINOGEN; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; HORMONE; NOLVADEX D; PLACEBO; STEROID; TAMOXIFEN;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOGENESIS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DRUG USE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; LONG TERM CARE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGEON; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

EID: 0034768226     PISSN: 0258851X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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