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Endocrinology and hormone therapy in breast cancer: Aromatase inhibitors versus antioestrogens

Endocrine therapies act by either blocking or downregulating the oestrogen receptor or by reducing oestrogen concentrations around and within the cancer cell. In postmenopausal women, oestrogen suppression is achieved by inhibition of the enzyme aromatase by aromatase inhibitors (AIs). Modern AIs (a...

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Autores principales: Howell, Anthony, Dowsett, Mitch
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2004
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1064088/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15535858
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/bcr945