title: A possible link between prenatal exposure to famine and breast cancer: a preliminary study.
abstract: In a study of 475 women born around the 1944-1945 Dutch famine, women exposed to prenatal famine more often reported a history of breast cancer than nonexposed women (hazard ratio, 2.6; 95% confidence interval, 0.9-7.7). They also had alterations in reproductive risk factors. Prenatal famine may increase breast cancer incidence.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, 1100 DD Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Painter
authors.forename: S R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: De Rooij
authors.forename: P M M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Bossuyt
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Osmond
authors.forename: D J P
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Barker
authors.forename: O P
authors.initials: OP
authors.lastname: Bleker
authors.forename: T J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Roseboom
mesh_terms: D001724:Birth Weight; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D039382:Maternal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D008875:Middle Aged; D009426:Netherlands / Q000453:epidemiology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011297:Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects; D016016:Proportional Hazards Models; D013217:Starvation / Q000503:physiopathology*; D047789:World War II