Does the time interval between first and last birth influence the risk of endometrial and ovarian cancer?
(2011) In European Journal of Cancer 47(4). p.586-591- Abstract
- Background: Age at first and last birth and the number of children are known to influence the risk of endometrial and ovarian cancers. However, it remains unknown whether the difference in years between first and last childbirth plays a role. The Swedish Family-Cancer Database allowed us to carry out the largest study ever on reproductive factors in these cancers. Material and methods: We selected over 5.7 million women from the database. We estimated the effect of number of children, age at birth and difference between age at first and last birth by Poisson regression adjusted for age, period, region and socioeconomic status. Results: The risk for endometrial cancer is negatively associated with increasing number of children and... (More)
- Background: Age at first and last birth and the number of children are known to influence the risk of endometrial and ovarian cancers. However, it remains unknown whether the difference in years between first and last childbirth plays a role. The Swedish Family-Cancer Database allowed us to carry out the largest study ever on reproductive factors in these cancers. Material and methods: We selected over 5.7 million women from the database. We estimated the effect of number of children, age at birth and difference between age at first and last birth by Poisson regression adjusted for age, period, region and socioeconomic status. Results: The risk for endometrial cancer is negatively associated with increasing number of children and increasing age at first as well as age at last birth. Weaker associations are found for ovarian cancer. Age at last birth is the factor that shows highest influence. A large difference in first and last childbirth shows a protective effect on the risk of endometrial cancer. Conclusion: Our findings suggest that the risk of endometrial cancer is significantly decreased for women having at least a difference of 10 years between their first and last birth. Ovarian cancer does not seem to be influenced by the time interval between first and last birth. (c) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. (Less)
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- Bevier, Melanie ; Sundquist, Jan LU and Hemminki, Kari LU
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- 2011
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Endometrial cancer, Ovarian cancer, Cancer risk, Reproductive factors
- in
- European Journal of Cancer
- volume
- 47
- issue
- 4
- pages
- 586 - 591
- publisher
- Elsevier
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- wos:000288468700013
- scopus:79851511707
- pmid:21055917
- ISSN
- 1879-0852
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.ejca.2010.10.004
- language
- English
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- yes
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- cec4a7ea-07b4-4d9d-b445-48a079acec94 (old id 1936297)
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abstract = {{Background: Age at first and last birth and the number of children are known to influence the risk of endometrial and ovarian cancers. However, it remains unknown whether the difference in years between first and last childbirth plays a role. The Swedish Family-Cancer Database allowed us to carry out the largest study ever on reproductive factors in these cancers. Material and methods: We selected over 5.7 million women from the database. We estimated the effect of number of children, age at birth and difference between age at first and last birth by Poisson regression adjusted for age, period, region and socioeconomic status. Results: The risk for endometrial cancer is negatively associated with increasing number of children and increasing age at first as well as age at last birth. Weaker associations are found for ovarian cancer. Age at last birth is the factor that shows highest influence. A large difference in first and last childbirth shows a protective effect on the risk of endometrial cancer. Conclusion: Our findings suggest that the risk of endometrial cancer is significantly decreased for women having at least a difference of 10 years between their first and last birth. Ovarian cancer does not seem to be influenced by the time interval between first and last birth. (c) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.}},
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series = {{European Journal of Cancer}},
title = {{Does the time interval between first and last birth influence the risk of endometrial and ovarian cancer?}},
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