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Body Mass Index, Serum Sex Hormones, and Breast Cancer Risk in Postmenopausal Women
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 2003 · Vol. 95(16) · pp. 1218–1226
Endogenous Hormones Breast Cancer Collaborative Group✉(Cancer Research UK)
Abstract
The results are compatible with the hypothesis that the increase in breast cancer risk with increasing BMI among postmenopausal women is largely the result of the associated increase in estrogens, particularly bioavailable estradiol.
Cancer Risks and FactorsMetabolism, Diabetes, and CancerNutritional Studies and DietEstroneDehydroepiandrosterone sulfateBreast cancerSex hormone-binding globulinBody mass indexMedicineInternal medicineEstrone sulfateEndocrinologyEstrogen
MeSH terms
AgedBreast NeoplasmsEstradiolFemaleHumansMiddle AgedProspective StudiesRisk FactorsGonadal Steroid HormonesBody Mass IndexLogistic ModelsCase-Control StudiesPostmenopauseRisk Assessment
Funding
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
- University of Southern California
- University of Missouri
- University of Connecticut
- Johns Hopkins University
- University of Pittsburgh
- Kagoshima University
- York University
- University of Oxford
- School of Medicine, New York University
- University of California, San Francisco
- University at Buffalo
- National Cancer Institute
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute
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