Cigarette smoking and urinary oestrogen excretion in premenopausal and post-menopausal women.

Cigarette smoking is associated with a reduction in the risk for endometrial cancer in post-menopausal women and it has been suggested that this is because smoking has an anti-oestrogenic effect. To investigate this, concentrations of oestrone, oestradiol and oestriol were measured in 24 h urine sam...

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Main Authors: Key, T. J., Pike, M. C., Brown, J. B., Hermon, C., Allen, D. S., Wang, D. Y.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 1996
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2075917/