Oral contraceptive use, parity, and constitutional characteristics in soft tissue sarcoma: a Swedish population-based case-control study 1988-2009.

Summary, in English

The study was designed to investigate the influence of surrogate factors associated with sex (SH) and growth hormones (GH) on the risk of developing soft tissue sarcomas (STS).

• Author: Philippe Wagner; Thor Alvegård; Jonas Ranstam; Anders Rydholm; Fredrik Vult von Steyern; Håkan Olsson
• Department/s: Orthopaedics (Lund); Medical oncology; BioCARE: Biomarkers in Cancer Medicine improving Health Care, Education and Innovation; Breastcancer-genetics; EpiHealth: Epidemiology for Health
• Publishing year: 2014
• Language: English
• Pages: 1167-1177
• Publication/Series: Cancer Causes and Control
• Volume: 25
• Issue: 9
• Links: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25034461?dopt=Abstract; http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10552-014-0420-4
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Springer
• Topic: Cancer and Oncology
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1573-7225