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Breast Cancer Risk Factors among Ugandan Women at a Tertiary Hospital: A Case-Control Study

Author(s) -

Moses Galukande,

Henry Wabinga,

Florence Mirembe,

Charles Karamagi,

Alexzander Asea

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

oncology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.987

H-Index - 98

eISSN - 1423-0232

pISSN - 0030-2414

DOI - 10.1159/000445379

Subject(s) - medicine , breast cancer , odds ratio , breastfeeding , incidence (geometry) , demography , confidence interval , obstetrics , gynecology , cancer , cancer registry , pediatrics , physics , sociology , optics

Although East Africa, like other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, has a lower incidence of breast cancer than high-income countries, the disease rate is rising steeply in Africa; it has nearly tripled in the past few decades in Uganda. There is a paucity of studies that have examined the relation between reproductive factors and breast cancer risk factors in Ugandan women.

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