Bilateral Oophorectomy in Relation to Risk of Postmenopausal Breast Cancer: Confounding by Nonmalignant Indications for Surgery?

Bilateral oophorectomy is often performed during hysterectomy for benign conditions and can reduce breast cancer risk by 20%–50% when performed at younger ages. Accuracy of estimating the decrease in breast cancer risk associated with bilateral oophorectomy could be affected by common conditions tha...

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Auteurs principaux: Nichols, Hazel B., Visvanathan, Kala, Newcomb, Polly A., Hampton, John M., Egan, Kathleen M., Titus-Ernstoff, Linda, Trentham-Dietz, Amy
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: Oxford University Press 2011
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Practice of Epidemiology
Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3105288/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21430192
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwq510
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