Multiple miscarriages are associated with the risk of ovarian cancer: results from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition.

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: Marieke G M Braem, N Charlotte Onland-Moret, Leo J Schouten, Roy F P M Kruitwagen, Annekatrin Lukanova, Naomi E Allen, Petra A Wark, Anne Tjønneland, Louise Hansen, Christina Marie Braüner, Kim Overvad, Françoise Clavel-Chapelon, Nathalie Chabbert-Buffet, Birgit Teucher, Anna Floegel, Heiner Boeing, Antonia Trichopoulou, George Adarakis, Maria Plada, Sabina Rinaldi, Veronika Fedirko, Isabelle Romieu, Valeria Pala, Rocco Galasso, Carlotta Sacerdote, Domenico Palli, Rosario Tumino, H Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Inger Torhild Gram, Oxana Gavrilyuk, Eiliv Lund, Maria-José Sánchez, Catalina Bonet, Maria-Dolores Chirlaque, Nerea Larrañaga, Aurelio Barricarte Gurrea, Jose R Quirós, Annika Idahl, Nina Ohlson, Eva Lundin, Karin Jirström, Salma Butt, Konstantinos K Tsilidis, Kay-Tee Khaw, Nick Wareham, Elio Riboli, Rudolf Kaaks, Petra H M Peeters
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3356371?pdf=render

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