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Is There a Believable Association?

Marilie D. Gammon, PhD; Joan E. Bertin, JD; Mary Beth Terry, MA

JAMA. 1996;275(4):321-322.

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The data presented by Newcomb and colleagues¹ in this issue of JAMA add one more valuable piece to a scientifically complex and politically charged jigsaw puzzle, the issue of breast cancer risk and abortion. To date, the epidemiologic evidence on this issue remains inconsistent.² Despite some highly publicized studies that support a significant positive association between induced abortion and breast cancer, primarily among inconsistently identified subgroups of women—such as women younger than 33 years with an abortion before a first birth,³ nulliparous women,⁴ women older than 50 years,⁵ gravid women with an early or late age at first abortion,⁶ women younger than age 40 years,^6,7 or among those with a family history of breast cancer⁸—many studies do not.^9-18 While there is an apparently consistent observation of a modest 10% to 50% elevation in risk in relation to a history of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Divisions of Epidemiology (Dr Gammon and Ms Terry) and Population and Family Health (Ms Bertin), Columbia University School of Public Health, New York, NY.

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