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Multiple miscarriages are associated with the risk of ovarian cancer: results from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition.
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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 carried out in female participants of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC). A total of 274,442 women were followed from 1992 until 2010. The baseline questionnaire e...
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1371/journal.pone.0037141
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Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum
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- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PLoS ONE Journal website
- Volume:
- 7
- Issue:
- 5
- Article number:
- e37141
- Publication date:
- 2012-01-01
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1932-6203
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1932-6203
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- English
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- Braem et al
- Copyright date:
- 2012
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- Copyright 2012 Braem et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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