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Re: Melatonin and Breast Cancer: A Prospective Study
Affiliations of authors: Medical Chronobiology Laboratory, WJB Dorn VAMC, and the University of South Carolina, 6439 Garners Ferry Rd., Columbia (WJMH); Laboratory of Chrono-Neuroendocrine Oncology, Bassett Research Institute, Cooperstown, NY (DEB)
Correspondence to: William J. M. Hrushesky, MD, Medical Chronobiology Laboratory, WJB Dorn VAMC and the University of South Carolina, 6439 Garners Ferry Rd., Columbia, SC 29210 (e-mail: william.hrushesky@med.va.gov)
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The recent paper by Travis et al. (1) describing 24-hour urinary melatonin metabolite excretion among women in the Guernsey cohort study, who have or have not developed breast cancer since 1985, requires two specific comments. In general, this is a solid study considering the impact of most known modulators of breast cancer risk and the
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