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Histological subtypes of ovarian cancer associated with parity and breastfeeding in the prospective Million Women Study
- Abstract:
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Ovarian cancer risk is known to be reduced amongst women who have had children, but reported associations with breastfeeding are varied. Few studies have had sufficient power to explore reliably these associations by tumour histotype.
In a prospective study of 1.1 million UK women, 8719 developed ovarian cancer during follow-up. Cox regression yielded adjusted relative risks (RRs) overall and by tumour histotype amongst women with different childbearing patterns.
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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NHS Breast Screening Programme
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Wiley Publisher's website
- Journal:
- International Journal of Cancer Journal website
- Volume:
- 142
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 281-289
- Publication date:
- 2017-09-20
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-09-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1097-0215
- ISSN:
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0020-7136
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pubs:729361
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uuid:d6f1ee17-fbb0-43de-8739-04aa6cefecbe
- Local pid:
- pubs:729361
- Deposit date:
- 2017-09-20
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- Copyright holder:
- Gaitskell et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- Open Access. © 2017 The Authors. International Journal of Cancer published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of UICC.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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