Association of serum sex steroid receptor bioactivity and sex steroid hormones with breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women

Postmenopausal women with elevated serum sex steroids have an increased risk of breast cancer. Most of this risk is believed to be exerted through binding of the sex steroids to their receptors. For the first time, we investigate the association of estrogen receptor (ER) and androgen receptor (AR) s...

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Main Authors: Fourkala, Evangelia-Ourania, Zaikin, Alexey, Burnell, Matthew, Gentry-Maharaj, Aleksandra, Ford, Jeremy, Gunu, Richard, Soromani, Christina, Hasenbrink, Guido, Jacobs, Ian, Dawnay, Anne, Widschwendter, Martin, Lichtenberg-Fraté, Hella, Menon, Usha
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Society for Endocrinology 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3322660/