Central Nervous System Infections
New central nervous system infections study results reported from University of Oxford
Published in Cancer Weekly, September 7th, 2010
A new study, 'Hormone replacement therapy and incidence of central nervous system tumours in the Million Women Study,' is now available. "We examined the relation between the use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and the incidence of central nervous system (CNS) tumours in a large prospective study of 1,147,894 postmenopausal women. Women were aged 56.6 years on average at entry, and HRT use was recorded at recruitment and updated, where possible, about 3 years later," scientists in Oxford, the United Kingdom report.
"During a mean follow-up of 5.3 years per woman, 1,266 CNS tumours were diagnosed, including 557 gliomas, 311 meningiomas and 117 acoustic neuromas....
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