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Sunday, March 06, 2011

Postmenopausal hormone use and incident ovarian cancer: Associations differ by regimen- Intl Journal of Cancer



"......Neither current nor former E + P use was associated with ovarian cancer risk (RR 1.08, 95% CI 0.86–1.35; RR 1.08, 95% CI 0.68–1.71, respectively, per 5-year increment). These findings suggest that progestins may mitigate some of the detrimental effects of estrogen on the ovarian epithelium."

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