ArticleBritish journal of cancer2006
Birth weight and breast cancer risk.
Article in British journal of cancer, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.
- Association of birth weight with cancer risk: a dose-response meta-analysis and Mendelian randomization study.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2023Pooled it
- Intrauterine environments and breast cancer risk: meta-analysis and systematic review.Breast cancer research : BCR · 2008Pooled it
- Nutrition Across the Life Course and Risk of Young-Onset Breast Cancer: Mechanisms, Evidence, and Prevention Opportunities.Nutrients · 2026Review
- 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
- The association between weight at birth and breast cancer risk revisited using Mendelian randomisation.European journal of epidemiology · 2019Article
- Birth size and breast cancer risk: re-analysis of individual participant data from 32 studies.PLoS medicine · 2008Article
- Using risk-based sampling to enrich cohorts for endpoints, genes, and exposures.American journal of epidemiology · 2007Article
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Abstract
Exploring whether the positive association between birth weight and breast cancer risk differs by other breast cancer risk factors may help inform speculation about biological mechanism. In these data, high birth weight was associated with breast cancer risk in younger and in more educated women, but was not associated overall.
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