Diabetes mellitus patients have metabolic and endocrine alterations that could contribute to an increased incidence of hormone-related cancers. We assessed the incidence of endometrial and breast cancer among 80,005 women and the incidence of breast cancer among 73,847 men (total of 153,852 patients
Impaired glucose metabolism and diabetes and the risk of breast, endometrial, and ovarian cancer
✍ Scribed by Mats Lambe; Annette Wigertz; Hans Garmo; Göran Walldius; Ingmar Jungner; Niklas Hammar
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 182 KB
- Volume
- 22
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0957-5243
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