Maternal Age and Birth Rank of Women With Breast Cancer

Maternal Age and Birth Rank of Women With Breast Cancer

Data from a large international case-control study of breast cancer suggested that women born to young mothers had a 25% lower risk of breast cancer. This association was not secondary to a tendency for these women themselves to have had children at early ages. The data provided no indication of a m...

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Veröffentlicht in:JNCI : Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1980-10, Vol.65 (4), p.719-722
Hauptverfasser: Rothman, K. J., MacMahon, B., Lin, T. M., Lowe, C. R., Mirra, A. P., Ravnihar, B., Salber, E. J., Trichopoulos, D., Yuasa, S.
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Sprache:eng
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Adult
Birth Order
Breast Neoplasms - etiology
Epidemiologic Methods
Female
Humans
Maternal Age
Risk
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Zusammenfassung:Data from a large international case-control study of breast cancer suggested that women born to young mothers had a 25% lower risk of breast cancer. This association was not secondary to a tendency for these women themselves to have had children at early ages. The data provided no indication of a meaningful association between breast cancer risk and birth rank. Confounding was controlled by stratification according to a summary confounder score.
ISSN:0027-8874
1460-2105
DOI:10.1093/jnci/65.4.719