The association between endometriosis and gynecological cancers and breast cancer: A review of epidemiological data

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 157-163

  Munksgaard, Peter Svenssen ^a   Blaakaer, Jan ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Endometriosis; Epidemiologi; Ovarian cancer

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; MEDLINE; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY CANCER; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS;

EID: 80052596772     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2011.06.017     Document Type: Review

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