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Lifetime Cigarette Smoking and Breast Cancer Prognosis in the After Breast Cancer Pooling Project

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Submitted by

Marcelo Jimenez

Source

Source Name: Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Source URL: http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/106/1/djt359.abstract.html?etoc

Author(s)

John P. Pierce, Ruth E. Patterson, Carolyn M. Senger, Shirley W. Flatt, Bette J. Caan, Loki Natarajan, Sarah J. Nechuta, Elizabeth M. Poole, Xiao-Ou Shu and Wendy Y. Chen

Using data from the 3 US cohorts in the After Breast Cancer Pooling Project (ABCPP) with information about duration and smoking exposure in 10000 breast cancer survivor, researchers analyzed the association between smoking and breast cancer survival. Exposition expressed in pack-year increase risks of recurrence and breast cancer mortality and all-cause mortality.