Insulin and related factors in premenopausal breast cancer risk
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
- Vol. 47 (2), 111-120
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1005831013718
Abstract
Background: Insulin and insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) are important mitogens in vitro and in vivo. It has been hypothesized that these factors may play an important role in the development of...Keywords
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