Postmenopausal endometrial cancer risk and body size in early life and middle age: prospective cohort study.

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Published in Br J Cancer on May 29, 2012

Authors

T Y O Yang1, B J Cairns, N Allen, S Sweetland, G K Reeves, V Beral, Million Women Study

Author Affiliations

1: Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, Richard Doll Building, Roosevelt Drive, Old Road Campus, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK. owen.yang@ceu.ox.ac.uk

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