Hormonal therapy for cancer
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[Hormonal replacement therapy and breast cancer].
The recent publication of some randomised control trials results and of two important cohort studies makes possible a better understanding of the relation between hormonal replacement therapy (HRT) and breast cancer. It is now well established that estrogen-progestin replacement therapy is associated with an elevation of breast cancer risk. It is not possible to define duration of treatment wit...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medicine
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1357-3039
DOI: 10.1016/j.mpmed.2015.10.014