22 Scientific Studies on Abortion and Breast Cancer

Adami H-O, Bergstrom R, Lund E, Meirik O (1990) Absence of association between reproductive variables and the risk of breast cancer in young women in Sweden and Norway.  Br J Cancer 62:122-6
Andrieu N, Clavel F, Gairard B, Piana L, Bremond A, Lansac J, Flamant R, Renaud R (1994) Familial risk of breast cancer and abortion.  Cancer Detect Preven 18:51-5
Briton LA, Hoover R, Fraumeni JF Jr (1983) Reproductive factors in the aetiology of breast cancer.  Br J Cancer 47:757-62
Briton LA, Daling JR, Liff JM, Shoenberg JB, Malone KE, Stanford JL, Coates RJ, Gammon MD, Hanson L, Hoover RN (1995) Oral contraceptives and breast cancer risk among younger women.  J Natl Cancer Inst 87:827-35
Burany B (1979) Gestational characteristics in women with breast cancer.   Jugosl Ginekol Opstet 19:237-47 (in Serbo-Croatian)
Daling JR, Malone KE, Voigt LF, White E, Weiss NS (1994)  Risk of breast cancer among young women: relationship to induced abortion.  J Natl Cancer Inst 86:1584-92
Dvoirin VV, Medvedev AB (1978) Role of women's reproductive status in the development of breast cancer.  In Methods and progress in breast cancer epidemiology research, Tallin, 1978.  Moscow:  Oncology Science Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences, 53-63 (in Russian)
Ewertz M, Duffy SW (1988) Risk of breast cancer in relation to reproductive factors in Denmark.  Br J Cancer 58:99-104
Hirohata T, Shigematsu T, Normura AMT, Nomura Y, Horie A, Hirohata I (1985) Occurrence of breast cancer in relation to diet and reproductive history: A case-control study in Fukuoka, Japan.  Natl Cancer Inst Monogr 69:187-90
Howe, HL, Senie RT, Bzduch H, Herzfeld P (1989) Early abortion and breast cancer risk among women under age 40. Int J Epidemiol 18:300-4
Laing AE, Demenais FM, Williams R, Kissling G, Chen VW, Bonney GE (1993) Breast cancer risk factors in African-American women:  The Howard University Tumor Registry experience. J Natl Med Assoc 85:931-9
Le M-G, Bachelot A, Doyon F, Kramar A, Hill C (1984) Oral contraceptive use and breast or cervical cancer: Preliminary results of a French case-control study.   In Wolff J-P, Scott JS, eds.  Hormones and sexual factors in human cancer aetiology.  Amsterdam: Elsevier, 139-47
Lipworth L, Katsouyanni K, Ekbom A, Michels KB, Tichopoulos D (1995) Abortion and the risk of breast cancer: a case-control study in Greece. Int J Cancer 61:181-4
Moseson M, Koenig KL, Shore RE, Pasternack BS (1993)  The influence of medical conditions associated with hormones on the risk of breast cancer.  Int J Epidemiol 22:1000-9
Newcomb PA, Storer BE, Longnecker MP, Mittendorf R, Greenberg ER, Willett WC (1995) Pregnancy termination in relation to risk of breast cancer.  Am J Epidemiol 141: S54
Nishiyama F (1982) The epidemiology of breast cancer in Tokushima abortions and risk of breast cancer.  Int J Cancer 48:816-20
Parazzini F, La Vecchia C, Negri E. (1991) Spontaneous and induced abortions and risk of breast cancer.  Int J Cancer 48:816-20
Pike MC, Henderson BE, Casagrande JT, Rosario I, Gray GE (1981) Oral contraceptive use and early abortion as risk factors for breast cancer in young women.   Br J Cancer 43:72-6
Rookus MA, van Leeuwan FE (1995) Breast cancer risk after induced abortion, a Dutch case-control study.  Am J Epidemiol 141:S54 (abstract #214 and oral presentation at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Society for Epidemiologic Research, Snowbird, Utah, USA, June, 1995)
Rosenberg L, Palmer JR, Kaufman DW, Strom BL, Schottenfeld D, Shapiro S (a988) Breast cancer in relation to the occurrence and time of induced and spontaneous abortion.  Am J Epidemiol 127:981-9
Segi M, Fukushima I, Fujisaku M, Saito S, Asano K, Kamoi M (1957) An epidemiological study on cancer in Japan GANN 48 (Suppl):1-63
Watanabe H, Hirayama T (1968) Epidemiology and clinical aspects of breast cancer.  Nippon Rinsho 26:1853-9 (in Japanese) Hlth Org 42:195-204