Insulin, Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I, and Risk of Breast Cancer in Postmenopausal Women

BACKGROUND: The positive association between obesity and postmenopausal breast cancer has been attributed, in part, to the fact that estrogen, a risk factor for breast cancer, is synthesized in adipose tissue. Obesity is also associated with high levels of insulin, a known mitogen. However, no prosp...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Gunter, Marc J., Hoover, Donald R., Yu, Herbert, Wassertheil-Smoller, Sylvia, Rohan, Thomas E., Manson, JoAnn E., Li, Jixin, Ho, Gloria Y. F., Xue, Xiaonan, Anderson, Garnet L., Kaplan, Robert C., Harris, Tiffany G., Howard, Barbara V., Wylie-Rosett, Judith, Burk, Robert D., Strickler, Howard D.
Materialtyp: Artigo
Språk:Inglês
Publicerad: Oxford University Press 2009
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Länkar:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2639294/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19116382
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djn415
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