Postmenopausal serum androgens, oestrogens and breast cancer risk: the European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition.

Considerable experimental and epidemiological evidence suggests that elevated endogenous sex steroids - notably androgens and oestrogens - promote breast tumour development. In spite of this evidence, postmenopausal androgen replacement therapy with dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) or testosterone has...

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Main Authors: Kaaks, R, Rinaldi, S, Key, T, Berrino, F, Peeters, P, Biessy, C, Dossus, L, Lukanova, A, Bingham, S, Khaw, K, Allen, N, Bueno-de-Mesquita, H, Gils, v, Grobbee, D, Boeing, H, Lahmann, P, Nagel, G, Chang-Claude, J, Clavel-Chapelon, F, Fournier, A, Thiébaut, A, González, C, Quirós, JR, Tormo, M, Ardanaz, E
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2005