Abstract
Matched pair analysis relating to 3376 mothers of children who died of cancer 1972-1981 and of healthy control children from the Oxford Survey of Childhood Cancers showed no evidence of protection from breastfeeding for acute lymphocytic leukaemia (OR 1.04, 95% CI 0.86-1.26), for all cancers combined (OR 1.04, 95% CI 0.93-1.15) or for other groupings. Analyses by duration of breastfeeding also failed to support the protective hypothesis.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1035-1037 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | British Journal of Cancer |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 7 Apr 2003 |
Keywords
- childhood cancer
- breastfeeding
