Oral contraceptive use and ovarian cancer risk among carriers of BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations

Women with mutations of the genes BRCA1 or BRCA2 are at increased risk of ovarian cancer. Oral contraceptives protect against ovarian cancer in general, but it is not known whether they protect against the disease in carriers of these mutations. We obtained self-reported lifetime histories of oral c...

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Main Authors: Whittemore, A S, Balise, R R, Pharoah, P D P, DiCioccio, R A, Oakley-Girvan, I, Ramus, S J, Daly, M, Usinowicz, M B, Garlinghouse-Jones, K, Ponder, B A J, Buys, S, Senie, R, Andrulis, I, John, E, Hopper, J L, Piver, M S
Format: Artigo
Sprog:Inglês
Udgivet: Nature Publishing Group 2004
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Epidemiology
Online adgang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2410144/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15545966
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6602239
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