Bioactive prolactin levels and risk of breast cancer: a nested case-control study.

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Published in Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev on October 14, 2014

Authors

Shelley S Tworoger1, Megan S Rice2, Bernard A Rosner3, Yvonne B Feeney4, Charles V Clevenger5, Susan E Hankinson6

Author Affiliations

1: Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts. nhsst@channing.harvard.edu.
2: Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
3: Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
4: Department of Pathology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.
5: Department of Pathology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.
6: Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts. Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts.

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