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Induced abortion as an independent risk factor for breast cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies on south asian women.

@article{Brind2019InducedAA,
  title={Induced abortion as an independent risk factor for breast cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies on south asian women.},
  author={J. Brind and Steven Condly and A. Lanfranchi and B. Rooney},
  journal={Issues in law & medicine},
  year={2019},
  volume={33 1},
  pages={
          32-54
        }
}

J. Brind, Steven Condly, +1 author B. Rooney

Published 2019

Medicine

Issues in law & medicine

OBJECTIVE South Asia, a historically low-incidence region for breast cancer, has produced many recent studies examining reproductive factors. We compiled these studies to confirm the reality of the significant association reported in the first, 1996 review of induced abortion as a risk factor, independent of abortion's known effect in abrogating the protection afforded by full-term pregnancy. METHODS We searched the medical literature for English language studies on breast cancer incidence in… CONTINUE READING

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