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Dee W. West

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  • Lower risk in parous women suggests that hormonal factors are important in bladder cancer etiology.

    Davis-Dao CA, Henderson KD, Sullivan-Halley J, Ma H, West D, Xiang YB, Gago-Dominguez M, Stern MC, Castelao JE, Conti DV, Pike MC, Bernstein L, Cortessis VK. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2011; 20 (6): 1156-70

    Urinary bladder cancer is two to four times more common among men than among women, a difference in risk not fully explained by established risk factors. Our objective was to determine whether hormonal and reproductive factors are involved in female bladder cancer.

    PubMedID: 21493870

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