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Breast cancer risk in relation to abortion: Results from the EPIC study

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Cancer, July 2006
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Title
Breast cancer risk in relation to abortion: Results from the EPIC study
Published in
International Journal of Cancer, July 2006
DOI 10.1002/ijc.22001
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Gillian K. Reeves, Sau‐Wan Kan, Tim Key, Anne Tjønneland, Anja Olsen, Kim Overvad, Petra H. Peeters, Françoise Clavel‐Chapelon, Xavier Paoletti, Franco Berrino, Vittorio Krogh, Domenico Palli, Rosario Tumino, Salvatore Panico, Paulo Vineis, Carlos A. Gonzalez, Eva Ardanaz, Carmen Martinez, Pilar Amiano, José R. Quiros, Maria R. Tormo, Kay‐Tee Khaw, Antonia Trichopoulou, Theodora Psaltopoulou, Victoria Kalapothaki, Gabriele Nagel, Jenny Chang‐Claude, Heiner Boeing, Petra H. Lahmann, Elisabet Wirfält, Rudolf Kaaks, Elio Riboli

Abstract

The role of spontaneous and induced abortion on breast cancer risk is examined among 267,361 women recruited into the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and nutrition between 1992 and 2000. The data were collected from 20 centers, across 9 countries, and included information on a total of 4,805 women with breast cancer, of whom 1,657 reported having ever had any type of abortion. Overall, the relative risk of breast cancer in women who reported ever having had a spontaneous abortion was not significantly elevated when compared with women who reported never having had such an abortion (RR = 1.07, 95% CI = 0.99-1.14). However, there was some evidence of a slight increase in the risk of breast cancer among women who reported having had 2 or more spontaneous abortions (1.20, 1.07-1.35). The relative risk of breast cancer among women who reported ever having had an induced abortion when compared to women who reported never having had an induced abortion was 0.95 (0.87-1.03). Overall, the findings provide further unbiased evidence of the lack of an adverse effect of induced abortion on breast cancer risk.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 4%
Sri Lanka 1 1%
Unknown 70 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 14 19%
Student > Master 7 9%
Other 6 8%
Student > Bachelor 5 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 7%
Other 14 19%
Unknown 23 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 24 32%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 11%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 3%
Social Sciences 2 3%
Other 8 11%
Unknown 24 32%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 175. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 August 2023.
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