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. 2019 Feb 1;48(1):28-29e.
doi: 10.1093/ije/dyy065.

Cohort Profile: the Million Women Study

Jane Green  1 , Gillian K Reeves  1 , Sarah Floud  1 , Isobel Barnes  1 , Benjamin J Cairns  1 , Toral Gathani  1 , Kirstin Pirie  1 , Siân Sweetland  1 , TienYu Owen Yang  1 , Valerie Beral  1 ; Million Women Study Collaborators
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Cohort Profile: the Million Women Study

Jane Green et al. Int J Epidemiol. .
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Figure 1
Figure 1
Location of the 66 NHS breast screening clinics through which Million Women Study participants were recruited ▪. Figure adapted from Figure 1 of the original article ‘The Million Women Study Collaborative Group: The Million Women Study: design and characteristics of the study population [peer-reviewed research]. Breast Cancer Res 1999; 1: 73–80. The original article is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0], which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Million Women Study: incidence of cancers of the breast, ovary and endometrium in relation to use of menopausal hormone therapy (HRT). Figure reprinted and adapted from Lancet 2007;369:1703–10: Beral et al., Ovarian cancer and hormone replacement therapy in the Million Women Study. Copyright (2007), with permission from Elsevier.
Figure 3
Figure 3
All-cause mortality in current and in ex-smokers in the Million Women Study. Adapted with permission from Pirie et al., Lancet 2013:381:133–41.
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