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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Format: | Online |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
1996
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2075917/ |