The nation-wide Swedish Family-Cancer Database was used to analyze the risk of contralateral breast cancer among 72,092 women with unilateral breast cancer. Contralateral breast cancer, defined as being diagnosed 6 months or more after the first breast cancer, affected 2,529 women (3.5%). In a young
‘Hormonal’ risk factors, ‘breast tissue age’ and the age-incidence of breast cancer
✍ Scribed by Pike, M. C.; Krailo, M. D.; Henderson, B. E.; Casagrande, J. T.; Hoel, D. G.
- Book ID
- 109731303
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Year
- 1983
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 447 KB
- Volume
- 303
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0028-0836
- DOI
- 10.1038/303767a0
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