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Family history of malignancies and risk of breast cancer: prospective data from the Shanghai women's health study.
Cancer causes & control : CCC - 1 Dec 2008
Kilfoy Briseis A, Zhang Yawei, Shu Xiao-Ou, Gao Yu-Tang, Ji Bu-Tian, Yang Gong, Li Hong Lan, Rothman Nathaniel, Chow Wong-Ho, Zheng Wei
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A population-based cohort study was conducted in Shanghai, China, to investigate the relationship between family cancer history in first-degree relatives and risk of breast cancer. A total of 570 newly diagnosed breast cancer patients were identified from the cohort of 73,222 women during the follow-up period. Breast cancer risk was elevated (RR = 1.74, 95% CI: 1.10-2.73) for those with a family history of breast...
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