Prolactin and Risk of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer.
Cassandra A HathawayMegan S RiceMary K TownsendSusan E HankinsonAlan A ArslanJulie E BuringGöran HallmansAnnika IdahlLaura D KubzanskyI-Min LeeEva A LundinPatrick M SlussAnne Zeleniuch-JacquotteShelley T TworogerPublished in: Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology (2021)
This work supports a previous study linking higher prolactin with ovarian carcinogenesis in a high adiposity setting. Future work is needed to understand the mechanism underlying this association.