Marja-Liisa Swahn

OBJECTIVE: Whether hormonal or surgical treatment of endometriosis is associated with risk of epithelial ovarian cancer. DESIGN: Nested case-control study. SETTING: Sweden. POPULATION: All women with a first-time discharge diagnosis of endo…

The antiestrogen tamoxifen and the antiprogestin RU 486 both interact with respective hormones at the receptor level, RU 486 as a pure antagonist which inhibits endometrial development, the downregulation of estrogen and progesterone recept…