Estrogen regulation of mammary involution and its implication in Parity Associated Breast Cancer

• Main Author: Lim, Chew Leng
• Other Authors: Valerie Lin Chun Ling
• Format: Thesis-Doctor of Philosophy
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Science::Biological sciences
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/136744
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

With the onset of pregnancy, the mammary gland undergoes a cycle of mammary alveolar development, lactation, followed by post-partum mammary involution to return back to pre-pregnancy state. Epidemiological studies indicated that each pregnancy increases the risk of breast cancer within 10 years of...