ArticleBritish journal of cancer2002
Birth weight as a predictor of breast cancer: a case-control study in Norway.
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- Neonatal Birth Weight of the Woman as a Risk Factor for Breast Cancer in her Life: a Case-Control Bicentric Study.Materia socio-medica · 2021Article
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- The association between weight at birth and breast cancer risk revisited using Mendelian randomisation.European journal of epidemiology · 2019Article
- Breast cancer protection by genomic imprinting in close kin families.BMC medical genetics · 2017Review
- Pedican: an online gene resource for pediatric cancers with literature evidence.Scientific reports · 2015Article
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- Early treatment with metformin induces resistance against tumor growth in adult rats.Cancer biology & therapy · 2015Article
- Fetal origins of adult disease.Current problems in pediatric and adolescent health care · 2011Review
- Is birthweight associated with risk of rheumatoid arthritis? Data from a large cohort study.Annals of the rheumatic diseases · 2009Article
- 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
- Examining breast cancer growth and lifestyle risk factors: early life, childhood, and adolescence.Clinical breast cancer · 2008Review
- Effects of birth order and maternal age on breast cancer risk: modification by whether women had been breast-fed.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2008Article
- Birth weight and breast cancer risk.British journal of cancer · 2006Article
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Abstract
The hypothesis that birth weight is positively associated with adult risk of breast cancer implies that factors related to intrauterine growth may be important for the development of this malignancy. Using stored birth records from the two main hospitals in Trondheim and Bergen, Norway, we collected information on birth weight, birth length and placenta weight among 373 women who developed breast cancer. From the same archives, we selected as controls 1150 women of identical age as the cases without a history of breast cancer. Information on age at first birth and parity were collected from the Central Person Registry in Norway. Based on conditional logistic regression analysis, breast cancer risk was positively associated with birth weight and with birth length (P for trend=0.02). Birth weights in the highest quartile (3730 g or more) were associated with 40% higher risk (odds ratio, 1.4, 95% confidence interval, 1.1-1.9) of breast cancer compared to birth weights in the lowest quartile (less than 3090 g). For birth length, the odds ratio for women who were 51.5 cm or more (highest quartile) was 1.3 (95% confidence interval, 1.0-1.8) compared to being less than 50 cm (lowest quartile) at birth. Adjustment for age at first birth and parity did not change these estimates. Placenta weight was not associated with breast cancer risk. This study provides strong evidence that intrauterine factors may influence future risk of breast cancer. A common feature of such factors would be their ability to stimulate foetal growth and, simultaneously, to influence intrauterine development of the mammary gland.
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