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2404408

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1990-2-12
pubmed:abstractText
The authors examined the relation between cigarette smoking and breast cancer in the Centers for Disease Control Cancer and Steroid Hormone Study, a multicenter, population-based case-control study. The study compared 4,720 women aged 20-54 years with newly diagnosed breast cancer identified through population-based tumor registries with 4,682 women randomly selected from the same geographic areas. Women who reported ever smoking cigarettes had a risk of breast cancer of 1.2 (95 percent confidence interval 1.1-1.3) compared with never smokers. There was no consistent dose-response pattern with any measure of smoking (pack-years of smoking, average number of cigarettes per day, or total years smoked) and little difference in risk between current and former smokers. There was some variation in risk by age, with slightly higher risk estimates for younger women than for older women. Although current smokers had an earlier natural menopause than did never smokers, the authors found no evidence of a protective effect of cigarette smoking on breast cancer risk. These findings suggest that the risk of breast cancer in women who smoke is the same as, or perhaps slightly higher than, women who have never smoked.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0002-9262
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
131
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
244-53
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1990
pubmed:articleTitle
Cigarette smoking and the risk of breast cancer.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Reproductive Health, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Clinical Trial, Comparative Study, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Multicenter Study