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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1999 91(11):910-911; doi:10.1093/jnci/91.11.910
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 91, No. 11, 910-911, June 2, 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press

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Hormonal Manipulations May Also Reduce Breast Cancer Risk

Nancy J. Nelson

The use of oral contraceptives during the last 3 decades may have contributed to a dramatic decline in the incidence of endometrial and ovarian cancers, but a decline in breast cancer rates has not been seen. Now, a contraceptive strategy to prevent all three cancers is being tested at the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, Calif.

The City of Hope researchers, headed by Jeffrey N. Weitzel, M.D., director of the Department of Clinical Cancer Genetics, are recruiting a small group of high-risk premenopausal women, most with BRCA1 . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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