Reproductive profiles and risk of breast cancer subtypes: a multi-center case-only study

Abstract

Background: Previous studies have shown that reproductive factors are differentially associated with breast cancer (BC) risk by subtypes. The aim of this study was to investigate associations between reproductive factors and BC subtypes, and whether these vary by age at diagnosis.

Authors Brouckaert, Olivier; Rudolph, Anja; Laenen, Annouschka; Keeman, Renske; Bolla, Manjeet K.; Wang, Qin; Soubry, Adelheid; Wildiers, Hans; Andrulis, Irene L.; Arndt, Volker; Beckmann, Matthias W.; Benitez, Javier; Blomqvist, Carl; Bojesen, Stig E.; Brauch, Hiltrud; Brennan, Paul; Brenner, Hermann; Chenevix-Trench, Georgia; Choi, Ji-Yeob; Cornelissen, Sten; Couch, Fergus J.; Cox, Angela; Cross, Simon S.; Czene, Kamila; Eriksson, Mikael; Fasching, Peter A.; Figueroa, Jonine; Flyger, Henrik; Giles, Graham G.; Gonzalez-Neira, Anna; Guenel, Pascal; Hall, Per; Hollestelle, Antoinette; Hopper, John L.; Ito, Hidemi; Jones, Michael; Kang, Daehee; Knight, Julia A.; Knight, Julia A.; Kosma, Veli-Matti; Li, Jingmei; Lindblom, Annika; Lilyquist, Jenna; Lophatananon, Artitaya; Mannermaa, Arto; Manoukian, Siranoush; Margolin, Sara; Matsuo, Keitaro; Muir, Kenneth; Nevanlinna, Heli; Peterlongo, Paolo; Pylkas, Katri; Saajrang, Suleeporn; Seynaeve, Caroline; Shen, Chen-Yang; Shu, Xiao-Ou; Southey, Melissa C.; Swerdlow, Anthony; Teo, Soo-Hwang; Tollenaar, Rob A. E. M.; Truong, Therese; Tseng, Chiu-chen; van den Broek, Alexandra J.; van Deurzen, Carolien H. M.; Winqvist, Robert; Wu, Anna H.; Yip, Cheng Har; Yu, Jyh-Cherng; Zheng, Wei; Milne, Roger L.; Pharoah, Paul D. P.; Easton, Douglas F.; Schmidt, Marjanka K.; Garcia-Closas, Montserrat; Chang-Claude, Jenny; Lambrechts, Diether; Neven, Patrick
Journal BREAST CANCER RESEARCH
Pages 119
Volume 19
Date 1/11/2017
Grant ID C1287/A10118
Funding Body Cancer Research UK
URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=10.1186/s13058-017-0909-3