BREAST-CANCER IN MOTHERS GIVEN DIETHYLSTILBESTROL IN PREGNANCY
BREAST-CANCER IN MOTHERS GIVEN DIETHYLSTILBESTROL IN PREGNANCY
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DOI:
10.1056/nejm198411293112201
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
影响因子:
158.5
通讯作者:
COLTON, T
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作者:
GREENBERG, ER;BARNES, AB;COLTON, T
The incidence of breast cancer in 3033 women who had taken diethylstilbestrol (DES) in pregnancy during the period from 1940-1960 was compared with the incidence in a comparable group of unexposed parous women. Vital status was ascertained in 95% of the exposed women and in 93% of the unexposed women and received completed questionnaires for 88 and 85%, respectively. With over 85,000 woman-yr of follow-up in each group, the incidence of breast cancer per 100,000 woman-yr was 134 in the exposed group and 93 in the unexposed group, yielding a crude relative risk of 1.4 (95% confidence interval, 1.1-1.9). The elevated incidence did not appear to be due to bias or to confounding by other risk factors measured in the study. Breast-cancer mortality was slightly higher in the exposed women (relative risk, 1.1) but not significantly so (95% confidence interval, 0.7-2.0). The incidence of breast cancer is moderatly increased in women given DES, but the possibility that some unrecognized concomitant of DES exposure accounts for this increase cannot be excluded.