Oral contraceptives cause evolutionarily novel increases in hormone exposure: A risk factor for breast cancer

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: In the evolutionary past, women spent most of their reproductive lives either pregnant or in lactational amenorrhea, and rarely menstruated. The current pattern of frequent menses, and the associated increase in endogenous hormonal exposure, has been implicated in the curr...

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Autores principales: Lovett, Jennie L, Chima, Margo A, Wexler, Juliana K, Arslanian, Kendall J, Friedman, Andrea B, Yousif, Chantal B, Strassmann, Beverly I
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Original Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5494186/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28685096
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/emph/eox009

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5494186/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28685096
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/emph/eox009

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