Oral contraceptive use and early abortion as risk factors for breast cancer in young women
Open Access
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in British Journal of Cancer
- Vol. 43 (1), 72-76
- https://doi.org/10.1038/bjc.1981.10
Abstract
A case-control study was conducted in Los Angeles County, California, of 163 very young breast-cancer cases (all aged 32 or less at diagnosis) to investigate the role, if any, of oral contraceptives (OC) in the development of the disease. OC use before first full-term pregnancy (FFTP) was associated with an elevated risk, which increased with duration of OC use (relative risk approximately 2.2 at 6 years of use, P < 0.01). This increased risk could not be explained by other risk factors. OC use after FFTP was not associated with any change in risk. A first-trimester abortion before FFTP, whether spontaneous or induced, was associated with a 2.4-fold increase in breast-cancer risk (P < 0.005).Keywords
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