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Endometrial Cancer

Studies from University of Helsinki yield new information about endometrial cancer

Published in Drug Law Weekly, January 19th, 2010

In this recent study, researchers in Helsinki, Finland conducted a study "To estimate the risk of endometrial cancer in all Finnish postmenopausal women using various forms of estradiol-progestin therapy. All Finnish women (aged more than 50 years) who had used estradiol-progestin therapy in 1994-2006 for at least 6 months (n=224,015) were identified from the national medical Reimbursement Registry and linked to the Finnish Cancer Registry."

"A total of 1,364 type I and 38 type 11 endometrial cancers were recorded by the end of 2006. The incidence of endometrial cancer in estradiol-progestin therapy users was compared with that in the general population in this cohort...

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