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Oral contraceptives: a risk factor for squamous cell carcinoma?
The Journal of investigative dermatology - 1 Dec 2009
Applebaum Katie M, Nelson Heather H, Zens Michael S, Stukel Therese A, Spencer Steven K, Karagas Margaret R
Abstract excerpt
Oral contraceptives (OCs) affect the risk of several cancers in women, but have been virtually unstudied for squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). We examined the hypothesis that OCs influence SCC risk in a case-control study among women and also examined whether polymorphisms in the DNA repair gene, Xeroderma pigmentosum group D (XPD), modified the risk. Incident cases of SCC were identified by a network of...
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