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Pre-diagnostic smoking behaviour and poorer prognosis in a German breast cancer patient cohort - Differential effects by tumour subtype, NAT2 status, BMI and alcohol intake.
Cancer epidemiology - 1 Aug 2014
Seibold Petra, Vrieling Alina, Heinz Judith, Obi Nadia, Sinn Hans-Peter, Flesch-Janys Dieter, Chang-Claude Jenny
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BACKGROUND: Inconsistent associations of smoking and breast cancer-specific mortality might be explained by subgroups of patients with different susceptibility to harmful effects of smoking. METHODS: We used a prospective cohort of 3340 postmenopausal breast cancer patients aged 50-74 and diagnosed with invasive tumours 2001-2005 in Germany, with a median follow-up time of 6 years. The effect of pre-diagnostic...
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