Reliability and validity of commercially available, direct radioimmunoassays for measurement of blood androgens and estrogens in postmenopausal women

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 757-765

  Rinaldi, Sabina ^a   Déchaud, Henri ^b   Biessy, Carine ^a   Morin Raverot, Ve´ronique ^b   Toniolo, Paolo ^c   Zeleniuch Jacquotte, Anne ^c   Akhmedkhanov, Arslan ^c   Shore, Roy E ^c   Secreto, Giorgio ^d   Ciampi, Antonio ^e   Riboli, Elio ^a   Kaaks, Rudolf ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^b Hopital de l'Antiquaille   (France)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ESTROGEN;

ADULT; ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CHROMATOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; EXTRACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0034923088     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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