Lower breast cancer survival in mothers of children with a malignancy: a national study

H Olsson1, S Magnusson, A Bladström

  • 1Department of Oncology, Institution of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund SE-221 85, Sweden. hakan.olsson@med.lu.se

As it is unclear if hereditary factors affect breast cancer survival, this was compared using fertility and cancer registry data, among all women so diagnosed during 1961-1999 in Sweden, having a child with childhood cancer (