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Breast Cancer
Findings from A. Fournier and co-authors provide new insights into breast cancer
May 12th, 2008
" We previously found that the risk of invasive breast cancer varied according to the progestagen component of combined postmenopausal hormone therapy (CHT): progesterone, dydrogesterone, or other progestagens. We conducted the present study to assess how these CHTs were associated with histology- and hormone receptor-defined breast cancer," scientists writing in the Journal of Clinical Oncology report. "Patients and Methods We used data from the French E3N cohort study, with 80,391 postmenopausal women followed for a mean duration of 8.1 years; 2,265 histologically confirmed invasive breast cancers were identified through biennial self-administered...
Source: Biotech Business Week (2008-05-12)
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