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Hormonal carcinogenesis and socio-biological development factors in endometrial cancer: a clinical review.
Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica - 1 Jan 2008
Tinelli Andrea, Vergara Daniele, Martignago Roberta, Leo Giuseppe, Malvasi Antonio, Tinelli Raffaele
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OBJECTIVE: Endometrial cancer is one of the most common invasive gynecologic malignancies in developed countries and the eighth leading cause of cancer death in women; it typically arises in the sixth or seventh decade of life. The aim of this review was to evaluate possible roles of genetic and socio-biological factors in type I endometrial cancer, largely confined to pre- and perimenopausal women, with a...
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