Smoking and breast cancer risk by race/ethnicity and oestrogen and progesterone receptor status: the Multiethnic Cohort (MEC) study
Author(s) -
Inger Torhild Gram,
SongYi Park,
Gertraud Maskarinec,
Lynne R. Wilkens,
Christopher A. Haiman,
Loı̈c Le Marchand
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyy290
Subject(s) - medicine , breast cancer , hazard ratio , confidence interval , gynecology , cohort , demography , cohort study , epidemiology , proportional hazards model , oncology , cancer , obstetrics , sociology
The purpose of this study was to examine if the smoking-related higher breast cancer risk was similar for the five race/ethnicity groups in the Multiethnic Cohort (MEC) study and by oestrogen (ER) and progesterone (PR) receptor status.
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