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Relationship of resistin levels with endometrial cancer risk.
Neoplasma - 1 Jan 2011
Hlavna M, Kohut L, Lipkova J, Bienertova-Vasku J, Dostalova Z, Chovanec J, Vasku A
Abstract excerpt
Cancer of endometrium (CAE) is the most common gynecologic malignancy in industrialized nations. Increased resistin levels, an adipocytokine produced by adipose tissue and macrophages, have been considered as a risk factor in gastric, colon and breast cancer, recently. No studies associating resistin levels with endometrial cancer have been done so far. The purpose of this case-control study was to determine the...
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