Is semen an etiologic factor in the development of primary peritoneal carcinoma and epithelial ovarian cancer?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 264-266

  Maheshwari, Amita ^a   Gupta, Sudeep ^a  

^a TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEART CANCER; HUMAN; OVARY CANCER; PERICARDIUM; PERITONEUM CANCER; PLEURA CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPERM; TUNICA VAGINALIS;

CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; SEMEN; SEX FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 11144255828     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2004.05.018     Document Type: Article

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