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Species | Lisbeth BertelsenSummaryAffiliation: Danish Cancer Society Country: Denmark Publications
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Risk for breast cancer among women with endometriosisLisbeth Bertelsen
Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Strandboulevarden 49, DK 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
Int J Cancer 120:1372-5. 2007..The increased risk associated with endometriosis among postmenopausal women may be due to common risk factors between postmenopausal endometriosis and breast cancer or an altered endogenous estrogen...- Effect of systemic adjuvant treatment on risk for contralateral breast cancer in the Women's Environment, Cancer and Radiation Epidemiology StudyLisbeth Bertelsen
Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Strandboulevarden 49, DK 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
J Natl Cancer Inst 100:32-40. 2008..However, less is known about how long the risk is reduced and the impact of factors such as age and menopausal status... 
Benign breast disease among first-degree relatives of young breast cancer patientsLisbeth Bertelsen
Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark
Am J Epidemiol 168:261-7. 2008..A genetic link between benign breast disease and breast cancer was indicated by our data but needs to be confirmed in future studies...- Age-specific incidence of breast cancer in breast cancer survivors and their first-degree relativesLisbeth Bertelsen
Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark
Epidemiology 20:175-80. 2009..We attempted to test this hypothesis in the Danish population with cancer registry data... - Cancer incidence in first-degree relatives of a population-based set of cases of early-onset breast cancerRajesh Rawal
Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Strandboulevarden 49, DK 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
Eur J Cancer 42:3034-40. 2006.... 
Risk for contralateral breast cancer among carriers of the CHEK2*1100delC mutation in the WECARE StudyL Mellemkjaer
Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Strandboulevarden 49, DK 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
Br J Cancer 98:728-33. 2008..However, the sampling variability was such that modest increases in risk could not be excluded. Nonetheless, because this is a rare mutation, it is unlikely to explain a major fraction of CBC in the population...- Oral contraceptives, postmenopausal hormones, and risk of asynchronous bilateral breast cancer: the WECARE Study GroupJane C Figueiredo
Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
J Clin Oncol 26:1411-8. 2008..To investigate whether oral contraceptive (OC) use and postmenopausal hormones (PMH) are associated with an increased risk of developing asynchronous bilateral breast cancer among women diagnosed with breast cancer younger than 55 years...