Association between diabetes, diabetes treatment and risk of developing endometrial cancer.

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Published in Br J Cancer on July 22, 2014

Authors

J Luo1, S Beresford2, C Chen3, R Chlebowski4, L Garcia5, L Kuller6, M Regier7, J Wactawski-Wende8, K L Margolis9

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health Indiana University Bloomington, 1025 E., 7th Street, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA.
2: School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
3: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA.
4: Los Angeles BioMedical Research Institute at Harbor-University of California, Torrance Memorial Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA.
5: Department of Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.
6: Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
7: Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA.
8: Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA.
9: HealthPartners Institute for Education and Research, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

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