L A Brinton

No ORCID on file · 5 papers in corpus
other 2015
British journal of cancer ·doi:10.1038/bjc.2015.24

BACKGROUND: Nulliparity is an endometrial cancer risk factor, but whether or not this association is due to infertility is unclear. Although there are many underlying infertility causes, few studies have assessed risk relations by specific …

observational 2015

Epidemiological studies have demonstrated associations between endometriosis and certain histotypes of ovarian cancer, including clear cell, low-grade serous and endometrioid carcinomas. We aimed to determine whether the observed associatio…

observational 1999
International journal of epidemiology ·doi:10.1093/ije/28.5.816

BACKGROUND: Several common medical conditions are associated with altered hormone levels, and may thus plausibly influence breast cancer risk. Few studies have examined such relationships, and we utilized a population-based case-control stu…

observational 1997
International journal of cancer ·doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-0215(19970117)70:2<150::aid-ijc2>3.0.co;2-w

Risk of breast cancer was assessed in relationship to gynecologic operations using data from a record-linkage study involving 15,844 women in the Uppsala Health Care Region of Sweden, who underwent surgery between 1965 and 1983. Data abstra…

observational 1997
American journal of obstetrics and gynecology ·doi:10.1016/s0002-9378(97)70550-7

OBJECTIVES: Our goal was to determine the risk of cancer after hospitalization for endometriosis. STUDY DESIGN: Records of 20,686 women hospitalized with endometriosis during the period 1969 to 1983, as identified through the nationwide Sw…