Risk and prognosis of cancer in middle-aged women who have experienced the death of a child

✍ Scribed by Anne Kvikstad; Lars J. Vatten

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 455 KB
• Volume: 67
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0020-7136
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0215(19960717)67:2<165::aid-ijc2>3.0.co;2-r

✦ Synopsis

First, we studied the relative risk of cancer among women born between 1935 and 1954 who had experienced a child's death, compared with women without this experience. Second, we examined whether survival was any different between cancer patients in the 2 groups. The study was a populationbased nested case-control study that included 14,669 cancer cases and 29,750 age-matched controls. The women who were included as incident cases were further analyzed using Cox regression in a study of total survival. The overall relative risk of cancer among women who had lost a child was nearly identical to that of women who had not lost a child (OR = 0.96, 95%