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YEAR: 1983

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Oral Contraceptive use and fibrocystic breast disease with special reference

to its histopathology.

AUTHORS

Pastides H; Kelsey JL; LiVolsi VA; Holford TR; Fischer DB; Goldenberg IS

SOURCE

Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 1983 Jul;71(1):5-9.

ABSTRACT

The relationship between use of oral contraceptives (OCs) and fibrocystic breast disease was examined in a

hospital-based case-control study undertaken in New Haven, Connecticut, from 1977-79. Particular emphasis was

placed on the extent of epithelial atypia and other histopathologic characteristics found in the biopsy specimens

from the cases. Women who had ever used OCs were at a somewhat decreased risk for fibrocystic disease as a

whole. Cases with high atypia and controls had similar patterns of OC use, whereas cases with low and

intermediate atypia has less OC use than controls. Cases with intermidiate atypia reported the lowest OC use.

Subjects with biopsy specimens exhibiting gross cysts, microscopic cysts, or papillomatosis were about 50% less

likely to have used OCs than controls. (author's) (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT5T 2071-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Oral Contraceptive use and fibrocystic breast disease with

special reference to its histopathology.", is(are) Pastides H; Kelsey JL; LiVolsi VA; Holford TR; Fischer DB;

Goldenberg IS. The source of this article is "Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 1983 Jul;71(1):5-9.". This article

was published in 1983 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT5T 2071-06. All rights reserved

with PubHealth.info) PIN: 22071

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