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Hormone Use, Reproductive History, and Risk of Lung Cancer: The Women's Health Initiative Studies

Ann G Schwartz1, Roberta M Ray, Michele L Cote

  • 1*Karmanos Cancer Institute and Department of Oncology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan; †Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle Washington; ‡C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan; §St. Joseph Mercy Oakland Hospital, Pontiac, Michigan; ‖Program in Epidemiology, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington; ¶Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California; #Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, California; **Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; ††Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida; ‡‡Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York; §§Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California; ‖‖Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, University of Buffalo School of Public Health and Health Professions, Buffalo, New York; and ¶¶Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford, California.

Journal of Thoracic Oncology : Official Publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer
|April 9, 2015
PubMed
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This study found that hormone therapy (HT) use under five years was associated with reduced lung cancer risk. However, evidence linking reproductive history to lung cancer risk remains weak, warranting further investigation.

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