Endocrine Abstracts

The importance of endogenous hormones in the aetiology of breast cancer has long been evident from the strong relationships between breast cancer risk and certain aspects of a woman’s reproductive history1. More recently, the risk of developing breast cancer among postmenopausal women has also been shown to increase substantially with increasing levels of circulating oestradiol2, thus providing more direct evidence for the role of hormones in the development of the disea...