Endometrial Cancer

Researchers from University of Oslo Detail Findings in Endometrial Cancer

Published in Women's Health Weekly, March 8th, 2012

2012 MAR 8 -- According to the authors of a study from Oslo, Norway, "We investigated whether variants in sex steroid hormone metabolism genes modify the effect of hormone therapy (HT) on endometrial cancer risk in postmenopausal non-Hispanic white women. A nested casecontrol study was conducted within the California Teachers Study (CTS)."

"We genotyped htSNPs in six genes involved in the hormone metabolism in 286 endometrial cancer cases and 488 controls. Odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) were estimated for each haplotype using unconditional logistic regression, adjusting for age. The strongest interaction was observed between duration of...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2012-03-08)

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