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16187284

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-1-24
pubmed:abstractText
Previous reports on the influence of the sex of a child and prognosis of a subsequent breast cancer have been conflicting. We took advantage of a number of large and good quality, nationwide Registries in Sweden to evaluate the prognostic value of the sex of the first child in breast cancer. A population-based cohort of 32,003 women born after 1935 and diagnosed with primary breast cancer between 1958 and 1997 was generated by linking a number of Swedish registries including Swedish Cancer Registry, Cause of Death Registry, Swedish Generation Registry and the Registry of Population and Population changes. Of these, 4,251 were nulliparous, 2,732 had only a boy and 2,497 had only a girl prior to diagnosis. We used this subpopulation to quantify the association between the sex of the first child and breast cancer-specific mortality, using the Cox proportional hazards. Sex of the child did not significantly influence the prognosis of breast cancer. Stratifying by age and adjusting for age at diagnosis, calendar period, time since last birth and age at first child did not alter the results. Our study, the largest up to date, failed to identify evidence to support the proposed association between the sex of the first child and breast cancer survival. Given the previous reports that advocated taking sex of the first child into consideration in making decisions related to breast cancer therapy, our findings are reassuring and clinically important.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0020-7136
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
118
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1515-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-7-24
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Sex of first child and breast cancer survival: a population-based study.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Community Medicine and Behavioural Sciences Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait. lthalib@hsc.edu.kw
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article