ArticleBreast cancer research : BCR2003
Risk factors for breast cancer in a population with high incidence rates.
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- Breast cancer among immigrants: a systematic review and new research directions.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2007Pooled it
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- Residential mobility and breast cancer in Marin County, California, USA.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2013Article
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- Recent trends in hormone therapy utilization and breast cancer incidence rates in the high incidence population of Marin County, California.BMC public health · 2010Article
- Differences in reproductive risk factors for breast cancer in middle-aged women in Marin County, California and a sociodemographically similar area of Northern California.BMC women's health · 2009Article
- Recent changes in breast cancer incidence and risk factor prevalence in San Francisco Bay area and California women: 1988 to 2004.Breast cancer research : BCR · 2007Article
- Population attributable risk of breast cancer in white women associated with immediately modifiable risk factors.BMC cancer · 2006Article
- Influence of nativity status on breast cancer risk among US black women.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2006Article
- Oligogenic combinations associated with breast cancer risk in women under 53 years of age.Human genetics · 2005Article
- Breast cancer in Marin County.Breast cancer research : BCR · 2003Review
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Abstract
backgroundThis report examines generally recognized breast cancer risk factors and years of residence in Marin County, California, an area with high breast cancer incidence and mortality rates.
methodsEligible women who were residents of Marin County diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997-99 and women without breast cancer obtained through random digit dialing, frequency-matched by cases' age at diagnosis and ethnicity, participated in either full in-person or abbreviated telephone interviews.
resultsIn multivariate analyses, 285 cases were statistically significantly more likely than 286 controls to report being premenopausal, never to have used birth control pills, a lower highest lifetime body mass index, four or more mammograms in 1990-94, beginning drinking after the age of 21, on average drinking two or more drinks per day, the highest quartile of pack-years of cigarette smoking and having been raised in an organized religion. Cases and controls did not significantly differ with regard to having a first-degree relative with breast cancer, a history of benign breast biopsy, previous radiation treatment, age at menarche, parity, use of hormone replacement therapy, age of first living in Marin County, or total years lived in Marin County. Results for several factors differed for women aged under 50 years or 50 years and over.
conclusionsDespite similar distributions of several known breast cancer risk factors, case-control differences in alcohol consumption suggest that risk in this high-risk population might be modifiable. Intensive study of this or other areas of similarly high incidence might reveal other important risk factors proximate to diagnosis.
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