Hormone Replacement Therapy and Breast Cancer.
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Hormone replacement therapy and breast cancer
The concern that postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may cause cancer of the breast has lead to an enormous volume of research in epidemiology, endocrinology and tumour cell biology. The epidemiology has become extremely sophisticated because the anticipated effect is small and there are several confounding factors. The consensus today is that long-term HRT (>10 years) is associate...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nihon Nyugan Kenshin Gakkaishi (Journal of Japan Association of Breast Cancer Screening)
سال: 1998
ISSN: 1882-6873,0918-0729
DOI: 10.3804/jjabcs.7.237