Risk factors relevant to cystic breast disease: a case-control study.
- 1 December 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
- Vol. 37 (4) , 271-273
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.37.4.271
Abstract
A total of 188 women aged 40-54 with cystic breast diseae and 2213 asymptomatic controls were questioned in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK between 1974 and 1978 concerning marital, reproductive, and menstrual status, history of oral contraception use, history of previous breast complaints, and a family history of breast cancer. Women with a history of breast biopsy were at an increased risk of the disease and those past the menopause were at a decreased risk. The disease is most prevalent among premenopausal women. Benign cystic disease of the breast does not seem to share a common etiology with breast cancer in the age range 40-54.This publication has 21 references indexed in Scilit:
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