Journal article
Circulating levels of sex steroid hormones and risk of ovarian cancer
Abstract
Experimental and epidemiological evidence supports a role for sex steroid hormones in the pathogenesis of ovarian cancer. We investigated the association between ovarian cancer risk and pre-diagnostic blood concentrations of testosterone, androstenedione, DHEAS, estrone and SHBG. A case-control study nested within 3 cohorts, in New York (USA), Umeå (Sweden) and Milan (Italy), included 132 subjects with primary invasive epithelial ovarian …
Authors
Lukanova A; Lundin E; Akhmedkhanov A; Micheli A; Rinaldi S; Zeleniuch‐Jacquotte A; Lenner P; Muti P; Biessy C; Krogh V
Journal
International Journal of Cancer, Vol. 104, No. 5, pp. 636–642
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
5 2003
DOI
10.1002/ijc.10990
ISSN
0020-7136