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Impact of teenage oral contraceptive use in a population-based series of early-onset breast cancer cases who have undergone BRCA mutation testing.
European journal of cancer (Oxford, England : 1990) - 1 Oct 2005
Jernström Helena, Loman Niklas, Johannsson Oskar T, Borg Ake, Olsson Håkan
Abstract excerpt
Oral contraceptive (OC) use in young women has been associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. This matched case-control study aims to elucidate the combined effects of OC use and genetic factors in a population-based series of BRCA1/2 mutation-tested early-onset breast cancers. A first invasive breast cancer was diagnosed in 259 women aged 40 years between 1990 and 1995 in the South Swedish Health Care...
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