Menopause and colorectal cancer

Post-menopausal women who have never used hormone replacement therapy have a higher risk of colon, but not rectal, cancer than do premenopausal women of the same age, socio-cultural class and dietary habits. Such risk increase seems to last about 10 years and to be restricted to lean women, a group...

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Autores principales: Franceschi, S, Gallus, S, Talamini, R, Tavani, A, Negri, E, Vecchia, C La
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2000
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Regular Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2363225/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10839302
http://dx.doi.org/10.1054/bjoc.1999.1084
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author Franceschi, S
Gallus, S
Talamini, R
Tavani, A
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description Post-menopausal women who have never used hormone replacement therapy have a higher risk of colon, but not rectal, cancer than do premenopausal women of the same age, socio-cultural class and dietary habits. Such risk increase seems to last about 10 years and to be restricted to lean women, a group who have lower levels of oestradiol after ovarian function ceases after menopause. © 2000 Cancer Research Campaign
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spelling pubmed-23632252009-09-10 Menopause and colorectal cancer Franceschi, S Gallus, S Talamini, R Tavani, A Negri, E Vecchia, C La Br J Cancer Regular Article Post-menopausal women who have never used hormone replacement therapy have a higher risk of colon, but not rectal, cancer than do premenopausal women of the same age, socio-cultural class and dietary habits. Such risk increase seems to last about 10 years and to be restricted to lean women, a group who have lower levels of oestradiol after ovarian function ceases after menopause. © 2000 Cancer Research Campaign Nature Publishing Group 2000-06 /pmc/articles/PMC2363225/ /pubmed/10839302 http://dx.doi.org/10.1054/bjoc.1999.1084 Text en Copyright © 2000 Cancer Research Campaign https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material.If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Menopause and colorectal cancer
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