Breastfeeding and childhood cancer risks: OSCC data.
Matched pair analysis relating to 3376 mothers of children who died of cancer 1972-1981 and of healthy control children from the Oxford Survey of Childhood Cancers showed no evidence of protection from breastfeeding for acute lymphocytic leukaemia (OR 1.04, 95% CI 0.86-1.26), for all cancers combined (OR 1.04, 95% CI 0.93-1.15) or for other groupings. Analyses by duration of breastfeeding also failed to support the protective hypothesis.
Lancashire
R J
RJ
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, UK.
Sorahan
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D001942:Breast Feeding; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control*