Primal Health Databank: Study
| Entry No: | 0430 |
| Title: | Breastfeeding and childhood cancer risks: OSCC data |
| Author(s): | Lancashire RJ, Sorahan T |
| Reference: | Br J Cancer 2003 Apr 7;88(7):1035-7 |
| Place of Study: | UK |
| Abstract: | Matched pair analysis relating to 3376 mothers of children who died of cancer 1972-1981 and of healthy control children from the Oxford Survey of Childhood Cancers showed no evidence of protection from breastfeeding for acute lymphocytic leukaemia (OR 1.04, 95% CI 0.86-1.26), for all cancers combined (OR 1.04, 95% CI 0.93-1.15) or for other groupings. Analyses by duration of breastfeeding also failed to support the protective hypothesis |
| Keyword(s): | breastfeeding, cancer in childhood, lymphoblastic leukemia |
| Discussion: | No discussion mentioned for this entry |
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