Characteristics relating to ovarian cancer risk: collaborative analysis of 12 US case-control studies. I. Methods. Collaborative Ovarian Cancer Group

Data from 12 US case-control studies of ovarian cancer, conducted during the period 1956-1986 and representing some 3,000 cases and 10,000 controls, were pooled and reanalyzed. Separate analyses were conducted for four subgroups of the pooled data: invasive epithelial ovarian cancers in white women;...

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Published in:American journal of epidemiology 1992-11, Vol.136 (10), p.1175-1183
Main Authors: Whittemore, A S, Harris, R, Itnyre, J, Halpern, J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African Americans - statistics & numerical data
Carcinoma - epidemiology
Case-Control Studies
European Continental Ancestry Group - statistics & numerical data
Female
Humans
Menopause
Middle Aged
Ovarian Neoplasms - epidemiology
Risk Factors
United States - epidemiology
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Summary:Data from 12 US case-control studies of ovarian cancer, conducted during the period 1956-1986 and representing some 3,000 cases and 10,000 controls, were pooled and reanalyzed. Separate analyses were conducted for four subgroups of the pooled data: invasive epithelial ovarian cancers in white women; epithelial ovarian cancers of low malignant potential in white women, epithelial ovarian cancers in black women, and nonepithelial ovarian cancers. This paper gives a brief description of the participating studies and describes the methods used in the collaborative analysis.
ISSN:0002-9262