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Prevention of breast cancer by recapitulation of pregnancy hormone levels
At the present time, the only approved method of breast cancer prevention is use of the selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM) tamoxifen. Many breast cancers are driven to grow by estrogen, and tamoxifen exploits this by blocking estrogen action at the estrogen receptor. A counter-intuitive an...
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BioMed Central
2004
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC314461/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14680493 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/bcr750 |