Abstract:Background
Though pregnancy and lactation are considered as protective factors against development of breast cancer (BC), small proportion of young premenopausal women develop tumors within 5 to 10 years of last childbirth presenting with aggressive disease. The exact mechanisms that lead to poor prognosis in these postpartum breast cancers (PPBC) is largely unknown.
Methods
We have evaluated the association of clinical and reproductive factors with BC in a cohort of women ≤ 45 years (N = 155) with long term… Show more
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