title: Common risk factors of breast and ovarian cancer: recent view.
abstract: Clinicians, epidemiologists, and public health specialists tend to examine breast and ovarian cancer separately. Although this seems fairly rational and expected, both malignancies are estrogen related and thus share many risk factors. In this review, we investigate the common familial, reproductive, anthropometric, nutritional, and lifestyle risk factors of breast and ovarian cancer. We believe that the parallel examination of the two cancer types could significantly contribute to an improved prevention of "gynecological cancer" as a whole.
authors.affiliation: 1st Department of Propaedeutic Surgery of Athens Medical School, Hippokration General Hospital, University of Athens, Kolonaki 10675, Athens, Greece. gzografo@med.uoa.gr
authors.forename: G C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Zografos
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Panou
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Panou
mesh_terms: D000886:Anthropometry; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology* / Q000235:genetics; D015444:Exercise; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008598:Menstruation; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology* / Q000235:genetics; D012098:Reproduction; D012307:Risk Factors