Dietary lipids and endometrial cancer: the current epidemiologic evidence
- 16 June 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Cancer Causes & Control
- Vol. 18 (7), 687-703
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10552-007-9021-9
Abstract
Because dietary fat has been postulated to affect obesity and estrogen levels, two important risk factors for endometrial cancer, its association with this disease has received some attention. We summarize here the current evidence for several dietary lipids.This publication has 52 references indexed in Scilit:
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