Obesity and breast disease. The role of the female sex hormones

Menstrual Cycles: Fatness as a Determinant of Minimum Weight for Height Necessary for Their Maintenance or Onset

1974 • 1,421 citations

Adipose tissue as a source of hormones

1987 • 597 citations

Endocrine function in human obesity

1981 • 234 citations

Serum concentrations of total and non‐protein‐bound oestradiol in patients with breast cancer and in normal controls

1982 • 179 citations

The association of body weight with recurrent cancer of the breast

1978 • 157 citations

RISK FACTORS FOR BENIGN BREAST DISEASE

1981 • 150 citations

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1981 • 136 citations

INCIDENCE RATES AND RISK FACTORS OF BENIGN BREAST NEOPLASMS1

1978 • 135 citations

Cholesterol and obesity as prognostic factors in breast cancer

1981 • 132 citations

Obesity, androgens, estrogens, and cancer risk.

1982 • 124 citations

Plasma levels of estrone, estrone sulfate, and estradiol and the percentage of unbound estradiol in postmenopausal women with and without breast disease.

1983 • 117 citations

Obesity, non-protein-bound estradiol levels, and distribution of estradiol in the sera of breast cancer patients

1986 • 81 citations

Distribution and percentages of non-protein bound contraceptive steroids in human serum

1982 • 79 citations

Non-protein bound oestradiol, sex hormone binding globulin, breast cancer and breast cancer risk

1985 • 68 citations

Aromatase activity in breast adipose tissue from women with benign and malignant breast diseases

1987 • 63 citations

Plasma oestradiol and progesterone levels in women with varying degrees of risk of breast cancer

1978 • 47 citations

Banbury Report 8. Hormones and Breast Cancer

1982 • 47 citations

An abnormal early evening peak of plasma prolactin in nulliparous and obese post‐menopausal women

1978 • 21 citations

DO BIG BREASTS DISADVANTAGE WOMEN WITH BREAST CANCER?

1989 • 20 citations

The application of rate dialysis to the determination of free steroids in plasma

1983 • 18 citations

Estimation of Estrogen Receptors in the Clinical Laboratory

1986 • 5 citations

Obesity and risks to health

1987 • 1 citations