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- Title
Oral contraceptives and the risk of breast cancer in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers.
- Authors
Narod, Steven A; Dubé, Marie-Pierre; Klijn, Jan; Lubinski, Jan; Lynch, Henry T; Ghadirian, Parviz; Provencher, Diane; Heimdal, Ketil; Moller, Pal; Robson, Mark; Offit, Kenneth; Isaacs, Claudine; Weber, Barbara; Friedman, Eitan; Gershoni-Baruch, Ruth; Rennert, Gad; Pasini, Barbara; Wagner, Theresa; Daly, Mary; Garber, Judy E; Neuhausen, Susan L; Ainsworth, Peter; Olsson, Hakan; Evans, Gareth; Osborne, Michael; Couch, Fergus; Foulkes, William D; Warner, Ellen; Kim-Sing, Charmaine; Olopade, Olufunmilayo; Tung, Nadine; Saal, Howard M; Weitzel, Jeffrey; Merajver, Sofia; Gauthier-Villars, Marion; Jernstrom, Helena; Sun, Ping; Brunet, Jean-Sebastien
- Abstract
Oral contraceptive use has been associated with an increase in the risk of breast cancer in young women. We examined whether this association is seen in women at high risk of breast cancer because they carry a mutation in one of two breast cancer susceptibility genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2.
- Publication
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2002, Vol 94, Issue 23, p1773
- ISSN
0027-8874
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1093/jnci/94.23.1773