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Risk of endometrial cancer and estrogen replacement therapy history by CYP17 genotype.
Cancer research - 1 Feb 2001
McKean-Cowdin R, Feigelson H S, Pike M C, Coetzee G A, Kolonel L N, Henderson B E
Abstract excerpt
Common variants among genes coding for enzymes in sex steroid biosynthetic pathways may influence the risk of endometrial cancer. We examined the association between endometrial cancer risk and estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) by CYP17 genotype using 51 incident cases and 391 randomly selected controls from a multiethnic cohort in Hawaii and Los Angeles, California. The relative risk of endometrial cancer was...
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