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No relationship between circulating levels of sex steroids and mammographic breast density: the Prospect-EPIC cohort

BACKGROUND: High breast density is associated with increased breast cancer risk. Epidemiologic studies have shown an increase in breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women with high levels of sex steroids. Hence, sex steroids may increase postmenopausal breast cancer risk via an increase of breast d...

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Autores principales: Verheus, Martijn, Peeters, Petra HM, van Noord, Paulus AH, van der Schouw, Yvonne T, Grobbee, Diederick E, van Gils, Carla H
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2206729/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17692133
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/bcr1758