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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Birth size is a marker of susceptibility to breast cancer later in life
October 16th, 2008
The findings from a study by a team based at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) are published in PLoS Medicine. Associations between birth size, perhaps as a marker of the pre-natal environment, and subsequent breast cancer risk have been identified before, but the findings from epidemiological studies have been inconsistent. The team re-analysed data from published and unpublished studies to obtain more precise estimates of the extent to which birth size affects the risk of breast cancer later in life and to investigate whether they could be explained by associations with other risk factors. They examined 32...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-10-16)
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