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Breast-feeding and the risk of breast cancer in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers.
Journal of the National Cancer Institute - 21 Jul 2004
Jernström H, Lubinski J, Lynch H T, Ghadirian P, Neuhausen S, Isaacs C, Weber B L, Horsman D, Rosen B, Foulkes W D, Friedman E, Gershoni-Baruch R, Ainsworth P, Daly M, Garber J, Olsson H, Sun P, Narod S A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Several studies have reported that the risk of breast cancer decreases with increasing duration of breast-feeding. Whether breast-feeding is associated with a reduced risk of hereditary breast cancer in women who carry deleterious BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations is currently unknown. METHODS: We conducted a case-control study of women with deleterious mutations in either the BRCA1 or the BRCA2 gene. Study...
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