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Hormones and progeny of breast tumor cells.
Climacteric : the journal of the International Menopause Society - 1 Apr 2006
Schneider H P G, Böcker W
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The rudimentary human glandular breast, with the approach of puberty, starts to grow both at glandular and stromal sites. Full differentiation is a gradual process and takes many years, and is only fully attained by pregnancy. The risk of breast cancer is inversely related to parity. Women during adolescence have the highest susceptibility to breast cancer development. This appears to be the period when the...
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