Background Previous studies on association of exogenous female sex hormones and risk
for meningioma have yielded conflicting results. The aim of this study was to evaluate the …

Background: The aetiology of meningiomas is largely unknown although hormones have
been suggested to play a role. Methods: A cohort study was performed to evaluate hormone …

Object The 2-fold higher incidence of meningioma in women compared with men has long
suggested a role for hormonally mediated risk factors, but specific mechanisms remain …

Background The role of exogenous hormone exposures in the development of meningioma
is unclear, but these exposures have been proposed as one hypothesis to explain the over …

The authors conducted a nationwide cohort study to evaluate the association between
postmenopausal hormone therapy and meningioma incidence in Finland. All women who …

Background and Objective A number of studies have focused on the association between
oral contraceptive (OC), hormonal replacement therapy (HRT) and reproductive factors and …

The etiology of brain tumors is largely unknown. Prior observations have implicated gender-
specific hormones in the pathogenesis of these tumors. In a population-based case-control …

Background: The etiologies of glioma and meningioma tumors are largely unknown.
Although reproductive hormones are thought to influence the risk of these tumors …

Purpose Molecular and clinical observations suggest a role of sex steroid hormones in the
occurrence of meningioma. However, there is limited and often conflicting data on the use of …

Aim We investigated the influence of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) use on the risk of
meningioma in a population-based setting. Methods We conducted a nationwide case …