CellWell record HH-523133
Contemporary Hormonal Contraception and the Risk of Breast Cancer
Lina Steinrud Mørch; Charlotte Wessel Skovlund; Philip C Hannaford; Lisa Iversen; Shona Fielding; Øjvind Lidegaard
New England Journal of Medicine · 2017
In plain language
In a Danish nationwide cohort of women aged 15 to 49, current or recent hormonal contraceptive use was associated with a higher breast cancer risk that increased with longer duration of use, though absolute increases were small.
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- Design
- Primary research (design unspecified)
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