Family History and Breast Cancer Risk Among Older Women in the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium Cohort
Author(s) -
Dejana Braithwaite,
Diana L. Miglioretti,
Weiwei Zhu,
Joshua Demb,
Amy TrenthamDietz,
Brian L. Sprague,
Jeffrey A. Tice,
Tracy Onega,
Louise M. Henderson,
Diana S. M. Buist,
Elad Ziv,
Louise C. Walter,
Karla Kerlikowske
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
jama internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.14
H-Index - 342
eISSN - 2168-6114
pISSN - 2168-6106
DOI - 10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.8642
Subject(s) - medicine , breast cancer , family history , hazard ratio , cohort , body mass index , cancer , gynecology , proportional hazards model , prospective cohort study , breast disease , obstetrics , incidence (geometry) , cohort study , mammography , demography , confidence interval , physics , sociology , optics
First-degree family history is a strong risk factor for breast cancer, but controversy exists about the magnitude of the association among older women.
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