American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on August 5, 2008
American Journal of Epidemiology 2008 168(6):575-576; doi:10.1093/aje/kwn167
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Epplein et al. Respond to "Endometrial Hyperplasia—Getting Back to Normal"
1 Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
2 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
3 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
4 Group Health Center for Health Studies, Seattle, WA
5 Current affiliation: Epidemiology Program, Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
Correspondence to Dr. Meira Epplein, Epidemiology Program, Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, 1236 Lauhala Street, Suite 407, Honolulu, HI 96822 (e-mail: mepplein@crch.hawaii.edu).
Received for publication May 8, 2008. Accepted for publication May 12, 2008.
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We thank Dr. Lacey for his commentary (1). We share Dr. Lacey's concern that the inability to fully distinguish endometrial hyperplasia from carcinoma means that even if these conditions did not share risk factors, there would be some indication in a given study that they did. As he noted,
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