Breast Cancer

New breast cancer study findings recently were published by researchers at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

Published in Cancer Weekly, February 2nd, 2010

"We sought to determine whether social class modifies the effect of BMI on breast cancer incidence. included 5642 postmenopausal White women recruited in 1989 to CLUE 11, a prospective cohort study in Washington County, Maryland," scientists in the United States report.

"We obtained exposure data from CLUE 11 and the 1990 US Census. We used survival and random-effects Cox proportional hazards analyses to determine the association of social class and BMI with breast cancer incidence. Education was independently associated with increased risk of breast cancer incidence (hazard ratio [HR]=1.06; 95% confidence interval [CI]=1.01, 1.11; P<.05); contextual measures of...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2010-02-02)

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