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Menopausal hormones and breast cancer in a biracial population
P G Moorman1, H Kuwabara, R C Millikan
1Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn., USA. patricia.moorman@yale.edu
Objectives:
This study examined the association between menopausal hormones and breast cancer in a biracial population.
Methods:
Logistic regression was used to calculate odds ratios for breast cancer associated with hormone use among 397 cases and 425 controls, all menopausal women.
Results:
Odds ratios for ever use of hormones were 0.8 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.5, 1.2) for White women and 0.7 (95% CI = 0.4, 1.2) for Black women. Risk was not increased with longer duration of use or more recent use.
Conclusions:
Breast cancer risk was not increased among White or Black women who used menopausal hormones, despite patterns of use varying considerably between races.
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