Estrogen plus progestin therapy and breast cancer in recently postmenopausal women.

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Published in Am J Epidemiol on March 27, 2008

Authors

Ross L Prentice1, Rowan T Chlebowski, Marcia L Stefanick, Joann E Manson, Mary Pettinger, Susan L Hendrix, F Allan Hubbell, Charles Kooperberg, Lewis H Kuller, Dorothy S Lane, Anne McTiernan, Mary Jo O'Sullivan, Jacques E Rossouw, Garnet L Anderson

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109-1024, USA. rprentic@fhcrc.org

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