Menopausal hormone therapy and mortality among women diagnosed with ovarian cancer in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study

Menopausal hormone therapy and mortality among women diagnosed with ovarian cancer in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study

Background: Although menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) use has been linked with an increased risk of ovarian cancer, whether pre-diagnosis MHT use affects ovarian cancer-specific mortality is unknown. Methods: Our analysis included 395 incident epithelial ovarian cancer patients with data on pre-diag...

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Main Authors: Ashley S. Felix, Kristen Bunch, Hannah P. Yang, Hannah Arem, Britton Trabert, Gretchen L. Gierach, Yikyung Park, William J. Lowery, Louise A. Brinton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-08-01
Series:Gynecologic Oncology Reports
Subjects:
Estrogen plus progestin
Ovarian cancer
Mortality
Menopausal hormone therapy
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352578915000338

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