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    The impact of lifecourse socio-economic position and individual social mobility on breast cancer risk.

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    Berger, E; Maitre, N; Romana Mancini, F; Baglietto, L; Perduca, V; Colineaux, H; Sieri, S; Panico, S; Sacerdote, C; Tumino, R; ...
    Date
    2020-11-23
    Source Title
    BMC Cancer
    Publisher
    Springer Science and Business Media LLC
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Severi, Gianluca
    Affiliation
    Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
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    Journal Article
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    Berger, E., Maitre, N., Romana Mancini, F., Baglietto, L., Perduca, V., Colineaux, H., Sieri, S., Panico, S., Sacerdote, C., Tumino, R., Vineis, P., Boutron-Ruault, M. -C., Severi, G., Castagné, R. & Delpierre, C. (2020). The impact of lifecourse socio-economic position and individual social mobility on breast cancer risk.. BMC Cancer, 20 (1), pp.1138-. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-020-07648-w.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/253064
    DOI
    10.1186/s12885-020-07648-w
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    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7684912
    Abstract
    BACKGROUND: Women with an advantaged socioeconomic position (SEP) have a higher risk of developing breast cancer (BC). The reasons for this association do not seem to be limited to reproductive factors and remain to be understood. We aimed to investigate the impact of lifecourse SEP from childhood and social mobility on the risk of BC considering a broad set of potential mediators. METHODS: We used a discovery-replication strategy in two European prospective cohorts, E3N (N = 83,436) and EPIC-Italy (N = 20,530). In E3N, 7877 women were diagnosed with BC during a median 24.4 years of follow-up, while in EPIC-Italy, 893 BC cases were diagnosed within 15.1 years. Hazard ratios (HR) were estimated using Cox proportional hazard models on imputed data. RESULTS: In E3N, women with higher education had a higher risk of BC (HR [95%CI] = 1.21 [1.12, 1.30]). This association was attenuated by adjusting for reproductive factors, in particular age at first childbirth (HR[95%CI] = 1.13 [1.04, 1.22]). Health behaviours, anthropometric variables, and BC screening had a weaker effect on the association. Women who remained in a stable advantaged SEP had a higher risk of BC (HR [95%CI] = 1.24 [1.07; 1.43]) attenuated after adjustment for potential mediators (HR [95%CI] = 1.13 [0.98; 1.31]). These results were replicated in EPIC-Italy. CONCLUSIONS: These results confirm the important role of reproductive factors in the social gradient in BC risk, which does not appear to be fully explained by the large set of potential mediators, including cancer screening, suggesting that further research is needed to identify additional mechanisms.

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