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Hypothesis: does breast cancer originate in utero?
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Bergkvist, L., Adami, H.-O., Persson, I., Hoover, R., & Schairer, C. (1989) · New England Journal of Medicine · doi:10.1056/nejm198908033210505 · Cited by 613
The search for the causes of breast and colon cancer
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Changing Incidence of Breast Cancer in Japanese-American Women2
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Vaginal Cancer after Maternal Treatment with Synthetic Estrogens
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The Swedish Twin Registry: a unique resource for clinical, epidemiological and genetic studies
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Metadata
- Authors
- Trichopoulos, D.
- Venue
- The Lancet
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1990-04
- Volume
- 335
- Issue
- 8695
- Pages
- 939-940
- ISSN
- 0099-5355 (ISSN-L)
- 0140-6736
- OpenAlex
- W2146734245
- Cited by
- 461
- References
- 23
- FWCI
- 3.64
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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