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Family history and risk of breast cancer: an analysis accounting for family structure.

Breast cancer research and treatment - 1 Aug 2017

Brewer Hannah R, Jones Michael E, Schoemaker Minouk J, Ashworth Alan, Swerdlow Anthony J

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PURPOSE: Family history is an important risk factor for breast cancer incidence, but the parameters conventionally used to categorize it are based solely on numbers and/or ages of breast cancer cases in the family and take no account of the size and age-structure of the woman's family. METHODS: Using data from the Generations Study, a cohort of over 113,000 women from the general UK population, we analyzed breast...

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PMID: 28578505
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-017-4325-2
PMCID: PMC5511313

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