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Breast Cancer
Antibiotic use doesn't appear to be a risk factor
May 26th, 2005
Use of antibiotics doesn't appear to be a risk factor for breast cancer. L.A. Garcia Rodriguez and Antonio Gonzalez-Perez, Spanish Center for Pharmacoepidemiologic Research in Madrid, tried to replicate results of a "recent nested case-control study [that found] increasing use of antibiotics was associated with a significantly elevated risk of breast cancer." The current research had "a similar study design using the General Practice Research Database in the United Kingdom. Women aged 30-79 years who were registered in the database between January 1995 and December 2001 comprised the study cohort. A total of 3,708 women with incident cases of breast...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-05-26)
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