Breast cancer and breastfeeding: collaborative reanalysis of individual data from 47 epidemiological studies in 30 countries, including 50 302 women with breast cancer and 96 973 women without the disease

2002/07/01 · 1,128 citations
Medicine · #Birth, Development, and Health #Breast cancer #Breast feeding #Breastfeeding #Breastfeeding Practices and Influences #Cancer #Cancer Risks and Factors #Confidence interval #Demography #Epidemiology #Gynecology #Internal medicine #Medicine #Obstetrics #Parity (physics) #Pediatrics #Relative risk

paper · doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(02)09454-0

published in The Lancet 360(9328), 187-195 (Elsevier BV)

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