Endometriosis and mammographic density measurements in the Nurses’ Health Study II

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• 作者：Leslie V. Farland ; Rulla M. Tamimi ; A. Heather Eliassen…
• 关键词：Endometriosis ; Epidemiology ; Mammographic density ; Breast density ; Breast cancer
• 刊名：Cancer Causes & Control
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：October 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：27
• 期：10
• 页码：1229-1237
• 全文大小：422 KB
• 刊物类别：Medicine
• 刊物主题：Medicine & Public Health
  Oncology
  Cancer Research
  Public Health
  Epidemiology
  Hematology
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-7225
• 卷排序：27

文摘

PurposeEndometriosis and mammographic density have been hypothesized to be influenced by sex steroid hormonal exposures in adolescence and early adulthood. We investigated the association between endometriosis and mammographic density, a consistent and independent risk factor for breast cancer.