Multiple Miscarriages Are Associated with the Risk of Ovarian Cancer: Results from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition

While the risk of ovarian cancer clearly reduces with each full-term pregnancy, the effect of incomplete pregnancies is unclear. We investigated whether incomplete pregnancies (miscarriages and induced abortions) are associated with risk of epithelial ovarian cancer. This observational study was car...

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Main Authors: Braem, Marieke G. M., Onland-Moret, N. Charlotte, Schouten, Leo J., Kruitwagen, Roy F. P. M., Lukanova, Annekatrin, Allen, Naomi E., Wark, Petra A., Tjønneland, Anne, Hansen, Louise, Braüner, Christina Marie, Overvad, Kim, Clavel-Chapelon, Françoise, Chabbert-Buffet, Nathalie, Teucher, Birgit, Floegel, Anna, Boeing, Heiner, Trichopoulou, Antonia, Adarakis, George, Plada, Maria, Rinaldi, Sabina, Fedirko, Veronika, Romieu, Isabelle, Pala, Valeria, Galasso, Rocco, Sacerdote, Carlotta, Palli, Domenico, Tumino, Rosario, Bueno-de-Mesquita, H. Bas, Gram, Inger Torhild, Gavrilyuk, Oxana, Lund, Eiliv, Sánchez, Maria-José, Bonet, Catalina, Chirlaque, Maria-Dolores, Larrañaga, Nerea, Gurrea, Aurelio Barricarte, Quirós, Jose R., Idahl, Annika, Ohlson, Nina, Lundin, Eva, Jirström, Karin, Butt, Salma, Tsilidis, Konstantinos K., Khaw, Kay-Tee, Wareham, Nick, Riboli, Elio, Kaaks, Rudolf, Peeters, Petra H. M.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3356371/