Plasma sex steroid hormone levels and risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women.

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Published in J Natl Cancer Inst on September 02, 1998

Authors

S E Hankinson1, W C Willett, J E Manson, G A Colditz, D J Hunter, D Spiegelman, R L Barbieri, F E Speizer

Author Affiliations

1: Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

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