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Intrauterine environment, mammary gland mass and breast cancer risk

Two intimately linked hypotheses on breast cancer etiology are described. The main postulate of the first hypothesis is that higher levels of pregnancy estrogens and other hormones favor the generation of a higher number of susceptible stem cells with compromised genomic stability. The second hypoth...

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Autor principal: Trichopoulos, Dimitrios
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2003
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC154134/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12559045
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/bcr555