Measuring Estrogen Exposure and Metabolism: Workshop Recommendations on Clinical Issues

L M Demers1, S E Hankinson1, S Haymond1

  • 1Departments of Pathology and Medicine (L.M.D.), Pennsylvania State University School of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania 17003; Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology (S.E.H.), University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003; Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago (S.H.), Chicago, Illinois 60611; Nuffield Department of Population Health (T.K.), University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF, United Kingdom; Department of Medicine (W.R.), Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York 10032; Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism (R.J.S.), University of Virginia Health Sciences System, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903; Departments of Obstetrics/Gynecology and Preventive Medicine (F.Z.S.), University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90033; Division of Laboratory Sciences (H.W.V.), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333; and Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (R.G.Z.), National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.

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