Safety of pregnancy after primary breast carcinoma in young women: A meta-analysis to overcome bias of healthy mother effect studies

Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey

Volumn 65, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 786-793

  Valachis, Antonis ^a,f   Tsali, Lamprini ^b,c   Pesce, Lorenzo L ^d   Polyzos, Nikolaos P ^b,e   Dimitriadis, Charalambos ^c   Tsalis, Konstantinos ^c   Mauri, Davide ^b  

^a Central Hospital of Eskilstuna   (Sweden)

^b General Hospital of Lamia   (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e Panhellenic Association for Continual Medical Research PACMeR   (Greece)

^f NONE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTHY MOTHER EFFECT; HUMAN; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PREGNANCY; PREMENOPAUSE; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, NEOPLASTIC; PREGNANCY OUTCOME;

EID: 79953219472     PISSN: 00297828     EISSN: 15339866     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OGX.0b013e31821285bf     Document Type: Review

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