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Higher parity and shorter breastfeeding duration: association with triple-negative phenotype of breast cancer.
Cancer - 1 Nov 2010
Shinde Shivani S, Forman Michele R, Kuerer Henry M, Yan Kai, Peintinger Florentia, Hunt Kelly K, Hortobagyi Gabriel N, Pusztai Lajos, Symmans W Fraser
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BACKGROUND: The combination of increased parity and shorter breastfeeding duration might increase the odds of the least differentiated triple-negative breast cancer (BC) phenotype, theoretically because an expanded progenitor cell population from each pregnancy would incompletely differentiate postpartum. METHODS: Subjects consisted of a consecutive case series of 2473 women treated for invasive breast cancer...
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