Twin births, sex of children and maternal risk of ovarian cancer: a cohort study in Norway

In a follow-up of 1 208 001 women aged 20–74 years, no significant association was found between twin births (112 cases) and risk, though those with twin girls had a non-significantly higher risk than those with singleton births; among the latter, those with girls only had a higher risk of endometri...

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Autores principales: Albrektsen, G, Heuch, I, Thoresen, S, Kvåle, G
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2007
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Epidemiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2360176/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17387347
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6603687
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Heuch, I
Thoresen, S
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description In a follow-up of 1 208 001 women aged 20–74 years, no significant association was found between twin births (112 cases) and risk, though those with twin girls had a non-significantly higher risk than those with singleton births; among the latter, those with girls only had a higher risk of endometrioid tumours (incidence rate ratio 1.35; 95% confidence interval 1.03–1.76, based on 475 cases) than women with boys only.
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spelling pubmed-23601762009-09-10 Twin births, sex of children and maternal risk of ovarian cancer: a cohort study in Norway Albrektsen, G Heuch, I Thoresen, S Kvåle, G Br J Cancer Epidemiology In a follow-up of 1 208 001 women aged 20–74 years, no significant association was found between twin births (112 cases) and risk, though those with twin girls had a non-significantly higher risk than those with singleton births; among the latter, those with girls only had a higher risk of endometrioid tumours (incidence rate ratio 1.35; 95% confidence interval 1.03–1.76, based on 475 cases) than women with boys only. Nature Publishing Group 2007-05-07 2007-03-27 /pmc/articles/PMC2360176/ /pubmed/17387347 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6603687 Text en Copyright © 2007 Cancer Research UK https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material.If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
spellingShingle Epidemiology
Albrektsen, G
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Thoresen, S
Kvåle, G
Twin births, sex of children and maternal risk of ovarian cancer: a cohort study in Norway
title Twin births, sex of children and maternal risk of ovarian cancer: a cohort study in Norway
title_full Twin births, sex of children and maternal risk of ovarian cancer: a cohort study in Norway
title_fullStr Twin births, sex of children and maternal risk of ovarian cancer: a cohort study in Norway
title_full_unstemmed Twin births, sex of children and maternal risk of ovarian cancer: a cohort study in Norway
title_short Twin births, sex of children and maternal risk of ovarian cancer: a cohort study in Norway
title_sort twin births, sex of children and maternal risk of ovarian cancer: a cohort study in norway
topic Epidemiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2360176/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17387347
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6603687
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