TY - JOUR
T1 - Menstrual and reproductive factors and gastric-cancer risk in women
AU - La Vecchia, C.
AU - D'Avanzo, B.
AU - Franceschi, S.
AU - Negri, E.
AU - Parazzini, F.
AU - Decarli, A.
PY - 1994
Y1 - 1994
N2 - To understand possible correlates of the systematically higher gastric-cancer rates in males than in females, we investigated the role of menstrual, reproductive and hormonal factors in females, using data from a case-control study conducted in Northern Italy. Cases were 229 post-menopausal women with incident, histologically confirmed gastric cancer, and controls were 614 post-menopausal women in hospital for acute, nonneoplastic, non-digestive-tract conditions. After allowance for age, education, family history, and selected dietary correlates of stomach cancer, a reduced gastric-cancer risk was observed in women with later menopause (odds ratio, OR = 0.6, p value for trend
AB - To understand possible correlates of the systematically higher gastric-cancer rates in males than in females, we investigated the role of menstrual, reproductive and hormonal factors in females, using data from a case-control study conducted in Northern Italy. Cases were 229 post-menopausal women with incident, histologically confirmed gastric cancer, and controls were 614 post-menopausal women in hospital for acute, nonneoplastic, non-digestive-tract conditions. After allowance for age, education, family history, and selected dietary correlates of stomach cancer, a reduced gastric-cancer risk was observed in women with later menopause (odds ratio, OR = 0.6, p value for trend
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U2 - 10.1002/ijc.2910590609
DO - 10.1002/ijc.2910590609
M3 - Article
C2 - 7989115
AN - SCOPUS:0028582154
VL - 59
SP - 761
EP - 764
JO - International Journal of Cancer
JF - International Journal of Cancer
SN - 0020-7136
IS - 6
ER -