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SUBMITTER: Russo J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3350833 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Russo Jose J Santucci-Pereira Julia J de Cicco Ricardo López RL Sheriff Fathima F Russo Patricia A PA Peri Suraj S Slifker Michael M Ross Eric E Mello Maria Luiza S ML Vidal Benedicto C BC Belitskaya-Lévy Ilana I Arslan Alan A Zeleniuch-Jacquotte Anne A Bordas Pal P Lenner Per P Ahman Janet J Afanasyeva Yelena Y Hallmans Goran G Toniolo Paolo P Russo Irma H IH
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Early pregnancy and multiparity are known to reduce the risk of women to develop breast cancer at menopause. Based on the knowledge that the differentiation of the breast induced by the hormones of pregnancy plays a major role in this protection, this work was performed with the purpose of identifying what differentiation-associated molecular changes persist in the breast until menopause. Core needle biopsies (CNB) obtained from the breast of 42 nulliparous (NP) and 71 parous (P) postmenopausal ...[more]