Birth weight and breast cancer risk.
Exploring whether the positive association between birth weight and breast cancer risk differs by other breast cancer risk factors may help inform speculation about biological mechanism. In these data, high birth weight was associated with breast cancer risk in younger and in more educated women, but was not associated overall.
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Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. troisir@mail.nih.gov
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D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001724:Birth Weight; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015331:Cohort Studies; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010298:Parity; D011247:Pregnancy; D012307:Risk Factors; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000453:epidemiology