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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2007 99(5):408-409; doi:10.1093/jnci/djk079
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press.

CORRESPONDENCE

Re: Endogenous Steroid Hormone Concentrations and Risk of Breast Cancer Among Premenopausal Women

Andrea Micheli, Giorgio Secreto, Elisabetta Meneghini, Vittorio Krogh, Paola Muti, Elisabetta Venturelli, Franco Berrino

Affiliations of authors: Dipartimento di Medicina Preventiva e Predittiva, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italia (AM, GS, EM, VK, EV, FB); Unità di Epidemiologia, Istituto Tumori Regina Elena, Roma, Italia (PM)

Correspondence to: Andrea Micheli, PhD, Dipartimento di Medicina Preventiva e Predittiva, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Via Venezian 1, 20133 Milano, Italia (e-mail: andrea.micheli@istitutotumori.mi.it).

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The case–control study nested within the Nurses’ Health Study II by Eliassen et al. (1) provides further evidence that circulating sex hormone levels are associated with breast cancer risk. They found that high prediagnostic estrogen and androgen levels were associated with an increased risk of breast cancer in premenopausal women but that there was no association with progesterone levels. Two prospective studies, Hormones and Diet in the Etiology of Breast . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Response: Re: Endogenous Steroid Hormone Concentrations and Risk of Breast Cancer Among Premenopausal Women
A. Heather Eliassen, Robert L. Barbieri, and Susan E. Hankinson
J Natl Cancer Inst 2007 99: 409-410. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]