Conjugated equine estrogens and breast cancer risk in the Women's Health Initiative clinical trial and observational study.

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Published in Am J Epidemiol on April 29, 2008

Authors

Ross L Prentice1, Rowan T Chlebowski, Marcia L Stefanick, Joann E Manson, Robert D Langer, 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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