ArticleBritish journal of cancer2001
Cancer risk in Swedish women: the relation to size at birth.
Article in British journal of cancer, 2001. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00341263 (Study of Maternal and Umbilical Cord Hormone Concentrations in Monochorionic and Dichorionic Pregnancies), which is not on this map. Cited by 17 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Study of Maternal and Umbilical Cord Hormone Concentrations in Monochorionic and Dichorionic Pregnancies
Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 71 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Association Between High Birth Weight and Long-Term Outcomes-Implications for Assisted Reproductive Technologies: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2021Pooled it
- Intrauterine environments and breast cancer risk: meta-analysis and systematic review.Breast cancer research : BCR · 2008Pooled it
- Birth weight and melanoma risk: a population-based case-control study.British journal of cancer · 2008Trial
- Paternal Exercise Improves the Metabolic Health of Offspring via Epigenetic Modulation of the Germline.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
- Human Milk Adiponectin and Leptin and Infant Body Composition over the First 12 Months of Lactation.Nutrients · 2018Article
- Premature Birth and Large for Gestational Age Are Associated with Risk of Barrett's Esophagus in Adults.Digestive diseases and sciences · 2016Article
- Birth weight and subsequent risk of cancer.Cancer epidemiology · 2014Article
- The maternal womb: a novel target for cancer prevention in the era of the obesity pandemic?European journal of cancer prevention : the official journal of the European Cancer Prevention Organisation (ECP) · 2011Review
- Nutrition in early life, and risk of cancer and metabolic disease: alternative endings in an epigenetic tale?The British journal of nutrition · 2009Review
- Birth size and breast cancer risk: re-analysis of individual participant data from 32 studies.PLoS medicine · 2008Article
- Birth weight in relation to endometrial and breast cancer risks in Swedish women.British journal of cancer · 2007Article
- Correlation of umbilical cord blood hormones and growth factors with stem cell potential: implications for the prenatal origin of breast cancer hypothesis.Breast cancer research : BCR · 2007Article
- Birth weight and breast cancer risk.British journal of cancer · 2006Article
- Frailty modelling of colorectal cancer incidence in Norway: indications that individual heterogeneity in risk is related to birth cohort.European journal of epidemiology · 2006Article
- Conditions in utero and cancer risk.European journal of epidemiology · 2006Review
- Towards an integrated model for breast cancer etiology: the crucial role of the number of mammary tissue-specific stem cells.Breast cancer research : BCR · 2005Review
- Birthweight, parental age, birth order and breast cancer risk in African-American and white women: a population-based case-control study.Breast cancer research : BCR · 2004Article
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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
The relationship between fetal growth as indicated by weight and length at birth, and cancer risk in 1080 adult Swedish women was examined. Birth factors were retrieved from original midwife records for the years 1914, 1918, 1922 and 1930, and primary cancer cases were identified by matching with national and regional cancer registries through the year 1998. A positive and statistically significant increased risk for cancer was found with increasing birth weight or birth length for all site cancer and non-hormone related cancer, defined as all cancer sites excluding breast, uterus and ovary. Addition of factors suspected to influence cancer risk, maternal proteinuria, birth order, own parity and age at menarche, did not attenuate this relation. Previously only breast cancer has been reported to be related to size at birth in adult women and this is the first study to report that cancer sites other than the major hormone-related sites may be influenced by size at birth, as measured by either weight or length at birth; these findings warrant further investigation.
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