Projected Changes in Breast Cancer Incidence Due to the Trend Toward Delayed Childbearing

Overview

Journal Am J Public Health

Specialty Public Health

Date 1987 Apr 1

PMID 3826470

Citations 19

Authors

E White

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Abstract

Because there has been a recent trend toward delay of childbearing in the United States, women in the birth cohort of 1945-49 will have an estimated 5 per cent greater incidence of breast cancer, and those in the cohort of 1950-54 an estimated 9 per cent greater incidence compared with the cohort of 1935-39, which had the distribution of age at first birth most favorable for breast cancer risk.

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