Oral Contraceptives and the Risk of Breast Cancer in BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers
Narod S, Dubé M, Klijn J, Lubinski J, Lynch H, Ghadirian P, Provencher D, Heimdal K, Moller P, Robson M, Offit K, Isaacs C, Weber B, Friedman E, Gershoni-Baruch R, Rennert G, Pasini B, Wagner T, Daly M, Garber J, Neuhausen S, Ainsworth P, Olsson H, Evans G, Osborne M, Couch F, Foulkes W, Warner E, Kim-Sing C, Olopade O, Tung N, Saal H, Weitzel J, Merajver S, Gauthier-Villars M, Jernstrom H, Sun P, Brunet J. Oral Contraceptives and the Risk of Breast Cancer in BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers. Journal Of The National Cancer Institute 2002, 94: 1773-1779. PMID: 12464649, DOI: 10.1093/jnci/94.23.1773.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRisk of breast cancerIncreased risk of breast cancerBRCA1 mutation carriersBRCA2 mutation carriersMutation carriersOral contraceptive useBRCA2 carriersAssociated with risk of breast cancerIncreased riskRisk of early-onset breast cancerIncreased risk of early-onset breast cancerBreast cancerOdds ratioOral contraceptivesHistory of ovarian cancerEarly-onset breast cancerConfidence intervalsConditional logistic regressionBreast cancer susceptibility genesAssociated with riskYear of birthCancer susceptibility genesContraceptive useCase-control studyPairs of women