Breast Cancer, Lactation History, and Serum Organochlorines
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Breast cancer, lactation history, and serum organochlorines.
The authors analyzed the relation between lactation history, organochlorine serum levels-in particular, 2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)-1,1,1-trichloroethane (DDT) and 1,1-dichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethylene (DDE)-and the risk of breast cancer within a subsampe from a larger breast cancer case-control study conducted among women living in Mexico City, Mexico, between 1990 and 1995. From the origin...
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Lifetime lactation in relation to breast cancer risk was examined in a case-control study in two counties in western New York. Cases were women age 40 years and over with incident, primary, histologically confirmed breast cancer. Controls were age- and county-frequency matched, selected from New York State driver's license records (for those less than age 65 years) and from Health Care Finance ...
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We read with interest the enlightening article by Romieu et al. (1) on breastfeeding in relation to risk of breast cancer among women in Mexico City. The widespread practice of long-duration lactation has given these researchers the ability to address questions that could not be easily answered using data from most industrialized countries. We were, however, puzzled by a few points made in the ...
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The authors conducted a case-control study in Mexico City between September 1990 and December 1992 to determine whether a dose-response relation could be observed between duration of lactation and the risk of breast cancer. Cases, women aged 20-75 years, were identified through six hospitals in Mexico City (n = 349) and were interviewed to obtain data on risk factors for breast cancer, includin...
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BACKGROUND Data from the Carolina Breast Cancer Study, a population-based, case-control study of breast cancer in African-American and white women residents of North Carolina, were evaluated to determine whether specific aspects of lactation are associated with a reduction in the risk of breast cancer. METHODS Analyses included 751 parous cases and 742 parous controls frequency-matched on age...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0002-9262
DOI: 10.1093/aje/152.4.363