Breast Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention

2019 Article Collection: Breast Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention

Breast Cancer Research is excited to present a curated collection on how different lifestyles, health, and populations are linked to breast cancer. Edited by one of our Deputy Editors, Dr. Leslie Bernstein is a leading epidemiologist in identifying physical activity as a means to reduce the risk of breast cancer. Dr. Bernstein would like to draw attention to two publications that come to different conclusions about the historical use of low-dose aspirin: one by Christina A. Clarke et al. and the other by Gabriella Frisk et al. We invite the reader to consider the study design and questionnaire of each cohort as well as the broader challenges of epidemiological studies. Find the collection here.

Breast Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention

Breast Cancer Research is excited to present a curated collection on how different lifestyles, health, and populations are linked to breast cancer. Edited by one of our Deputy Editors, Dr. Leslie Bernstein is a leading epidemiologist in identifying physical activity as a means to reduce the risk of breast cancer. Dr. Bernstein would like to draw attention to two publications that come to different conclusions about the historical use of low-dose aspirin: one by Christina A. Clarke et al. and the other by Gabriella Frisk et al. We invite the reader to consider the study design and questionnaire of each cohort as well as the broader challenges of epidemiological studies. Other seminal research included in the collection is the association of breast cancer with habits such as smoking and nighttime eating as well as environmental factors such as traffic noise and air pollution.

1. Content Type:Research Article

   No association between low-dose aspirin use and breast cancer outcomes overall: a Swedish population-based study

   Results from previous studies indicate that use of low-dose aspirin may improve breast cancer prognosis. We evaluated aspirin use and breast cancer outcomes in relation to clinical characteristics as well as d...

   Authors:Gabriella Frisk, Sara Ekberg, Elisabet Lidbrink, Sandra Eloranta, Malin Sund, Irma Fredriksson, Mats Lambe and Karin E. Smedby

   Citation:Breast Cancer Research 2018 20:142

   Published on: 20 November 2018

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   Aerobic and resistance exercise improves physical fitness, bone health, and quality of life in overweight and obese breast cancer survivors: a randomized controlled trial

   Exercise is an effective strategy to improve quality of life and physical fitness in breast cancer survivors; however, few studies have focused on the early survivorship period, minorities, physically inactive...

   Authors:Christina M Dieli-Conwright, Kerry S Courneya, Wendy Demark-Wahnefried, Nathalie Sami, Kyuwan Lee, Frank C Sweeney, Christina Stewart, Thomas A Buchanan, Darcy Spicer, Debu Tripathy, Leslie Bernstein and Joanne E Mortimer

   Citation:Breast Cancer Research 2018 20:124

   Published on: 19 October 2018

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   Long-term exposure to road traffic noise and incidence of breast cancer: a cohort study

   Exposure to road traffic noise was associated with increased risk of estrogen receptor (ER)-negative (ER-) breast cancer in a previous cohort study, but not with overall or ER-positive (ER+) breast cancer, or ...

   Authors:Zorana Jovanovic Andersen, Jeanette Therming Jørgensen, Lea Elsborg, Søren Nymand Lophaven, Claus Backalarz, Jens Elgaard Laursen, Torben Holm Pedersen, Mette Kildevæld Simonsen, Elvira Vaclavik Bräuner and Elsebeth Lynge

   Citation:Breast Cancer Research 2018 20:119

   Published on: 5 October 2018

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   Breast cancer risk factors, survival and recurrence, and tumor molecular subtype: analysis of 3012 women from an indigenous Asian population

   Limited evidence, mostly from studies in Western populations, suggests that the prognostic effects of lifestyle-related risk factors may be molecular subtype-dependent. Here, we examined whether pre-diagnostic...

   Authors:Mustapha Abubakar, Hyuna Sung, Devi BCR, Jennifer Guida, Tieng Swee Tang, Ruth M. Pfeiffer and Xiaohong R. Yang

   Citation:Breast Cancer Research 2018 20:114

   Published on: 18 September 2018

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   Body mass index at age 18 years and recent body mass index in relation to risk of breast cancer overall and ER/PR/HER2-defined subtypes in white women and African-American women: a pooled analysis

   Although it has been well-documented that obesity is associated with decreased risk of premenopausal breast cancer and increased risk of postmenopausal breast cancer, it is unclear whether these associations d...

   Authors:Huiyan Ma, Giske Ursin, Xinxin Xu, Eunjung Lee, Kayo Togawa, Kathleen E. Malone, Polly A. Marchbanks, Jill A. McDonald, Michael S. Simon, Suzanne G. Folger, Yani Lu, Jane Sullivan-Halley, Dennis M. Deapen, Michael F. Press and Leslie Bernstein

   Citation:Breast Cancer Research 2018 20:5

   Published on: 22 January 2018

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   Residential particulate matter and distance to roadways in relation to mammographic density: results from the Nurses’ Health Studies

   High mammographic density is a strong, well-established breast cancer risk factor. Three studies conducted in various smaller geographic settings reported inconsistent findings between air pollution and mammog...

   Authors:Natalie C. DuPre, Jaime E. Hart, Kimberly A. Bertrand, Peter Kraft, Francine Laden and Rulla M. Tamimi

   Citation:Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:124

   Published on: 23 November 2017

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   Smoking and risk of breast cancer in the Generations Study cohort

   Plausible biological reasons exist regarding why smoking could affect breast cancer risk, but epidemiological evidence is inconsistent.

   Authors:Michael E. Jones, Minouk J. Schoemaker, Lauren B. Wright, Alan Ashworth and Anthony J. Swerdlow

   Citation:Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:118

   Published on: 22 November 2017

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   Body size in early life and risk of breast cancer

   Body size in early life is inversely associated with adult breast cancer (BC) risk, but it is unclear whether the associations differ by tumor characteristics.

   Authors:Md. Shajedur Rahman Shawon, Mikael Eriksson and Jingmei Li

   Citation:Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:84

   Published on: 21 July 2017

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   Regular and low-dose aspirin, other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications and prospective risk of HER2-defined breast cancer: the California Teachers Study

   Regular users of aspirin may have reduced risk of breast cancer. Few studies have addressed whether risk reduction pertains to specific breast cancer subtypes defined jointly by hormone receptor (estrogen and ...

   Authors:Christina A. Clarke, Alison J. Canchola, Lisa M. Moy, Susan L. Neuhausen, Nadia T. Chung, James V. Lacey Jr and Leslie Bernstein

   Citation:Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:52

   Published on: 1 May 2017

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10. Content Type:Research Article

    Nighttime eating and breast cancer among Chinese women in Hong Kong

    A novel line of research suggests that eating at nighttime may have several metabolic consequences that are highly relevant to breast cancer. We investigated the association between nighttime eating habits aft...

    Authors:Mengjie Li, Lap Ah Tse, Wing-cheong Chan, Chi-hei Kwok, Siu-lan Leung, Cherry Wu, Wai-cho Yu, Priscilla Ming-yi Lee, Koon-ho Tsang, Sze-hong Law, Roel Vermeulen, Fangyi Gu, Neil E. Caporaso, Ignatius Tak-sun Yu, Feng Wang and Xiaohong Rose Yang

    Citation:Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:31

    Published on: 17 March 2017

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11. Content Type:Research Article

    Reproductive factors and the risk of triple-negative breast cancer in white women and African-American women: a pooled analysis

    Early age at menarche, nulliparity, late age at first completed pregnancy, and never having breastfed, are established breast cancer risk factors. However, among breast cancer subtypes, it remains unclear whet...

    Authors:Huiyan Ma, Giske Ursin, Xinxin Xu, Eunjung Lee, Kayo Togawa, Lei Duan, Yani Lu, Kathleen E. Malone, Polly A. Marchbanks, Jill A. McDonald, Michael S. Simon, Suzanne G. Folger, Jane Sullivan-Halley, Dennis M. Deapen, Michael F. Press and Leslie Bernstein

    Citation:Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:6

    Published on: 13 January 2017

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    Long-term use of calcium channel blocking drugs and breast cancer risk in a prospective cohort of US and Puerto Rican women

    In a recent case–control study, long-term use of calcium channel blocking drugs was associated with a greater-than-twofold increased breast cancer risk. If prospectively collected data confirm that calcium cha...

    Authors:Lauren E. Wilson, Aimee A. D’Aloisio, Dale P. Sandler and Jack A. Taylor

    Citation:Breast Cancer Research 2016 18:61

    Published on: 5 July 2016

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