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Risk of familial breast cancer is not increased after pregnancy.
Breast cancer research and treatment - 1 Apr 2008
Hemminki Kari, Försti Asta, Sundquist Jan, Ji Jianguang
Abstract excerpt
Risk of breast cancer is temporarily elevated shortly after pregnancy and the available limited data suggest that a family history of breast cancer may reinforce the risk. We used the nation-wide Swedish Family-Cancer Database to estimate the relative risk (RR) for invasive breast cancer following childbirth among women with or without a family history. The RRs were defined using Poisson regression model of...
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