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Use of oral contraceptives and breast cancer risk: The Norwegian-Swedish Women's Lifestyle and Health Cohort StudyMerethe Kumle
Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tromsoe, 9037 Tromsoe, Norway
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 11:1375-81. 2002..005). Current/recent use of OCs is associated with an increased breast cancer risk. Use of combined OCs and progestin-only pills seem to increase the risk at the same level...- [Use of oral contraceptives and risk of cancer, a cohort study]Merethe Kumle
Institutt for samfunnsmedisin, Universitetet i Tromsø
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen 123:1653-6. 2003..Use of oral contraceptives and the risk of cancer continues to be an issue... - Education and risk of breast cancer in the Norwegian-Swedish women's lifestyle and health cohort studyTonje Braaten
Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tromsoe, Norway
Int J Cancer 110:579-83. 2004..04 (95% CI 0.82-1.32). The results of our study suggest a clear positive gradient in risk for breast cancer by level of education, which can be fully explained by established breast cancer risk factors... - Cohort profile: The Norwegian Women and Cancer Study--NOWAC--Kvinner og kreftEiliv Lund
Institute of Community Medicine, University of Troms, 9037 Troms, Norway
Int J Epidemiol 37:36-41. 2008 - Explaining the socioeconomic variation in cancer risk in the Norwegian Women and Cancer StudyTonje Braaten
Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø, N 9037 Tromsø, Norway
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 14:2591-7. 2005..After multivariate adjustment for potential confounders related to level of education, the variation in cancer risk according to educational levels declined into nonsignificance for all these sites... - Hormone replacement therapy and breast cancer in former users of oral contraceptives--The Norwegian Women and Cancer studyEiliv Lund
Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
Int J Cancer 121:645-8. 2007.... 
Gene expression analyses in breast cancer epidemiology: the Norwegian Women and Cancer postgenome cohort studyVanessa Dumeaux
Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø, 9037 Tromsø, Norway
Breast Cancer Res 10:R13. 2008..The introduction of high-throughput technologies, also called -omics technologies, into epidemiology has raised the need for high-quality observational studies to reduce several sources of error and bias...- External validity in a population-based national prospective study--the Norwegian Women and Cancer Study (NOWAC)Eiliv Lund
Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
Cancer Causes Control 14:1001-8. 2003..The aim of this paper was to study the external validity of the cohort as a necessary premise for the estimation of population attributable risk... 
DNA adducts and cancer risk in prospective studies: a pooled analysis and a meta-analysisFabrizio Veglia
Life Sciences and Epidemiology Unit, ISI Foundation, Torino 10133, Italy
Carcinogenesis 29:932-6. 2008..The results of our pooled and meta-analyses suggest that bulky DNA adducts are associated with lung cancer arising in current smokers after a follow-up of several years...- Prospective study of physical activity in different periods of life and the risk of ovarian cancerElisabete Weiderpass
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Int J Cancer 118:3153-60. 2006..In the context of the inconsistent scientific literature, our findings probably reflect that physical activity is not causally related with ovarian cancer... - Physical activity as a determinant of mortality in womenYlva Trolle-Lagerros
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Epidemiology 16:780-5. 2005..We aimed to quantify the effect of physical activity on overall mortality in younger women and to assess the effect of past versus current activity... - Physical activity in different periods of life and the risk of breast cancer: the Norwegian-Swedish Women's Lifestyle and Health cohort studyKaren L Margolis
Berman Center for Outcomes and Clinical Research, Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Hennepin County Medical Center, Suite 440, 825 South 8th Street, Minneapolis, MN 55404, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 14:27-32. 2005..Physical activity has been found to be associated with decreased risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women in the majority of epidemiologic studies, but the association is inconsistent in premenopausal women... - A prospective study of body size in different periods of life and risk of premenopausal breast cancerElisabete Weiderpass
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 13:1121-7. 2004..The decreased risk of premenopausal breast cancer was observed in overweight and obese women without, but not in those with, a family history of breast cancer... - Declining breast cancer incidence and decreased HRT useMerethe Kumle
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Lancet 372:608-10. 2008 - Endogenous androgens and risk of epithelial ovarian cancer: results from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)Sabina Rinaldi
IARC, Lyon, France
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 16:23-9. 2007..The heterogeneity of results on the associations of fT with ovarian cancer risk in postmenopausal women deserves further investigation... - EPIC-Heart: the cardiovascular component of a prospective study of nutritional, lifestyle and biological factors in 520,000 middle-aged participants from 10 European countriesJohn Danesh
EPIC Heart Secretariat, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Worts Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
Eur J Epidemiol 22:129-41. 2007..Subsequent analyses will extend this approach to non-fatal cardiovascular outcomes and to further dietary, biochemical and genetic factors...