The Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) is a major population research enterprise that aims to generate knowledge and recommendations pertinent to the health of postmenopausal women. The WHI is funded and administered through the USA National Institutes of Health, with the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute having a central role. The WHI is conducted through 40 Clinical Centers in the USA. Our group at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle serves as Clinical Coordinating Center for the WHI, and as the site for one of the Clinical Centers.
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Prentice, R.L. (2008). Women’s Health Initiative Studies of Postmenopausal Breast Cancer. In: Li, J.J., Li, S.A., Mohla, S., Rochefort, H., Maudelonde, T. (eds) Hormonal Carcinogenesis V. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 617. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-69080-3_14
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