Alcohol consumption was associated with an increasing trend in risk of regional/distant tumours but not of earlier stage tumours, indicating that alcohol may be involved in late-stage events.
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Epidemiology of in situ and invasive breast cancer in women aged under 45.
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A test of heterogeneity showed some evidence of a difference in relative risk associated with parity for in situ tumours compared with regional/distant tumours (P = 0.05), but no significant difference between the risks for in situ and local (P=0.36), or local and regional/distant tumours (P=0.11). Among parous women, there was a borderline significant decreasing trend in RR with increasing parity for both in situ and local tumours.
However, one would then expect a decreasing trend in RR of in situ tumours with increasing time since last birth, and this was not apparent.
The risk of in situ tumours associated with frequent drinking was significantly less than of regional/distant tumours (P=0.01). There was a highly significant decrease in RR with increasing BMI for in situ tumours (P-value for trend=0.002), with heavy women at half the risk of lean women (RR = 0.45).