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Cigarette Smoking and Breast Cancer
* Bureau of Communicable Disease Control, New York State Department of Health Corning Tower, ESP, Room 649, Albany, NY 12237-0683, USA
** Bureau of Cancer Epidemiology, New York State Department of Health Albany, NY 12237, USA
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, State University of New York at Albany Albany, NY 12203, USA
Field N A (Bureau of Communicable Disease Control, New York State Department of Health, Corning Tower, ESP, Room 649, Albany, NY 12237-0683, USA), Baptiste M S, Nasca P C and Metzger B B. Cigarette smoking and breast cancer. International Journal of Epidemiology 1992; 21: 842–848.
An epidemiological case-control study was conducted in New York State, with 1617 primary breast cancer patients and an equal number of controls, to examine the relationship between cigarette smoking and breast cancer. Results showed no overall association between ever smokers versus never smokers and breast cancer risk (odds ratio [OR] = 1.03, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.90–1.19), nor was there any dose response trend observed with increased levels of smoking. In addition, no association was found with risk and age started smoking, age stopped smoking, amount smoked or total years smoked. Controlling for previously identified risk factors for breast cancer in the analysis did not significantly alter these relationships. Previous studies have found a difference in menopausal age among smokers compared to nonsmokers. The mean menopausal age was only slightly lower in smokers than in never smokers for both cases and controls. Breast cancer risk was observed to be close to unity for premenopausal women (OR = 0.97, 95% CI: 0.74–1.34) and postmenopausal women (OR = 1.06, 95% CI: 0.91–1.26). A recent study suggested breast cancer risk was more strongly related to starting smoking at a young age among women who smoked at least 25 or more cigarettes per day in the most recent year of smoking. This hypothesis was not supported by these data.
Received 1 May 1992
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