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Abstract B132: Risk factors for uncommon histologically defined subgroups of breast cancer using the Breast Cancer Family Registry
Meghan W Boedges, Irene L Andrulis, Esther M John, John L Hopper, Julia A Knight, Yuyan Liao, Frances O'Malley, Anna Marie Mulligan, Melissa Southey, Hanina Hibshoosh, Fang Fang Zhang, Mary Beth Terry
Cancer Prevention Research | American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) | Published : 2010
Abstract
Abstract Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease; risk factors may differ for histologically-defined subgroups. Because most breast cancers are of ductal or lobular histology, previous studies have been limited in their ability to evaluate risk factors in rarer histologies, such as medullary, mucinous, and tubular, due to small sample sizes. We evaluated risk factors for histologically-defined breast cancer subgroups (ductal, lobular, tubular, medullary, or mucinous) using population-based data from the Breast Cancer Family Registry. Data were available for 3260 incident breast cancer cases (including 92 cases of medullary, 90 cases of mucinous, and 86 cases of tubular histol..
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