Breast Cancer Research

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Prescriptions for selective cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors, non-selective non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and risk of breast cancer in a population-based case-control study

Deirdre P Cronin-Fenton1*, Lars Pedersen1, Timothy L Lash1,2, Søren Friis3, John A Baron4 and Henrik T Sørensen1,2

  • * Corresponding author: Deirdre P Cronin-Fenton dc@dce.au.dk

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Olof Palmes Alle 43-45, 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark

2 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Boston University, 715 Albany Street, TE3, Boston, MA 02118, USA

3 Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, The Danish Cancer Society, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark

4 Departments of Community and Family Medicine and Medicine and the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA

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Breast Cancer Research 2010, 12:R15 doi:10.1186/bcr2482

Published: 1 March 2010

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Tables S1-S3. Table S1: Duration and intensity of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug use (sCox-2 inhibitors and non-selective non-aspirin non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) among women with at least 10 years of prescription history and odds ratio of breast cancer. Table S2: Duration and intensity of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug use (aspirin and non-selective non-aspirin non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) among women with at least 10 years of prescription history and odds ratio of breast cancer. Table S3: Duration and intensity of aspirin use among women with at least 10 years of prescription history and odds ratio of breast cancer.

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