Digoxin use and risk of invasive breast cancer: evidence from the Nurses' Health Study and meta-analysis.

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Published in Breast Cancer Res Treat on February 28, 2014

Authors

Thomas P Ahern1, Rulla M Tamimi, Bernard A Rosner, Susan E Hankinson

Author Affiliations

1: Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, thomas.ahern@med.uvm.edu.

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