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Epidemiology of breast cancer subtypes in two prospective cohort studies of breast cancer survivors

Marilyn L Kwan1 email, Lawrence H Kushi1 email, Erin Weltzien1 email, Benjamin Maring1 email, Susan E Kutner2 email, Regan S Fulton3 email, Marion M Lee4 email, Christine B Ambrosone5 email and Bette J Caan1 email

Kaiser Permanente, Division of Research, 2000 Broadway, First Floor, Oakland, CA 94612, USA

Kaiser Permanente, San Jose, 280 Hospital Parkway, San Jose, CA 95119, USA

Kaiser Permanente, Regional Immunohistochemistry Laboratory, 350 St. Joseph's Street, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Box 0981, 185 Berry Street 6600, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143-0981, USA

Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Elm & Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA

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Breast Cancer Research 2009, 11:R31doi:10.1186/bcr2261

Published: 22 May 2009


See related editorial by Troester and Swift-Scanlan, http://breast-cancer-research.com/content/11/3/104


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Additional file 1:

A word file containing a table that lists previous studies that have examined associations between common breast cancer risk factors and breast cancer tumor subtypes.

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Additional file 2:

A word file containing a table that lists the distribution of demographic, reproductive, and lifestyle risk factors in the LACE and Pathways studies individually and combined (n = 2544).

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A word file containing a table that lists case-only odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals from logistic regression models of associations between breast cancer tumor subtypes and demographic, reproductive, and lifestyle risk factors, LACE study (n = 1821).

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A word file containing a table that shows case-only odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals from logistic regression models of associations between breast cancer tumor subtypes and demographic, reproductive, and lifestyle risk factors, Pathways study (n = 723).

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