## Abstract It has been suggested that abortions leave the breast epithelium in a proliferative state with an increased susceptibility to carcinogenesis. Results from previous studies of induced or spontaneous abortions and risk of subsequent breast cancer are contradictory, probably due to methodo
Abortions and breast cancer: Record-based case-control study
β Scribed by Joel Brind; Vernon M. Chinchilli
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 43 KB
- Volume
- 109
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0020-7136
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