Weight and weight change following breast cancer: evidence from a prospective, population-based, breast cancer cohort study

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Does ethnicity affect survival following colorectal cancer? A prospective, cohort study using Iranian cancer registry

  Background:The present study compared the differences between survivals of patients with colorectal cancer according to their ethnicity adjusted for other predictors of survival.   Methods: In this prospective cohort study patients were followed up from definite diagnosis of colorectal cancer to death. Totally, 2431 person-year follow-ups were undertaken for 1127 colorectal cancer patients on...

Placental weight and breast cancer risk in young women: a registry-based cohort study from Norway.

BACKGROUND Pregnancy has a short-term risk-increasing effect on breast cancer that may be attributed to growth-promoting effects of pregnancy hormones on prevalent but undetected tumors. Results of two previous studies suggested that placental weight may be positively associated with breast cancer risk. METHODS In a cohort of 338,051 women followed from 1999 to 2008, on the basis of data link...

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HISTORY OF GESTATIONAL DIABETES AND THE RISK OF BREAST CANCER: A POPULATION BASED COHORT STUDY

Background: Although a positive association between type 2 diabetes and breast cancer has been reported, an association with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is less clear. This study aimed to assess the relationship between the history of GDM and the incidence of BC a long term population based study. Methods: To conduct this research, 4076 women aged 20-50 years who participated in the fi...

Breast cancer prognosis in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers: an International Prospective Breast Cancer Family Registry population-based cohort study.

PURPOSE To compare breast cancer prognosis in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers with that in patients with sporadic disease. PATIENTS AND METHODS An international population-based cohort study was conducted in Canada, the United States, and Australia of 3,220 women with incident breast cancer diagnosed between 1995 and 2000 and observed prospectively. Ninety-three had BRCA1 mutations; 71, BRC...