Towards an integrated model for breast cancer etiology: the crucial role of the number of mammary tissue-specific stem cells.

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Published in Breast Cancer Res on November 05, 2004

Authors

Dimitrios Trichopoulos1, Pagona Lagiou, Hans-Olov Adami

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. dtrichop@hsph.harvard.edu

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