Twin births, sex of children and maternal risk of ovarian cancer: a cohort study in Norway

Br J Cancer. 2007 May 7;96(9):1433-5. doi: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6603687. Epub 2007 Mar 27.

Abstract

In a follow-up of 1,208,001 women aged 20-74 years, no significant association was found between twin births (112 cases) and risk, though those with twin girls had a non-significantly higher risk than those with singleton births; among the latter, those with girls only had a higher risk of endometrioid tumours (incidence rate ratio 1.35; 95% confidence interval 1.03-1.76, based on 475 cases) than women with boys only.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Mothers*
  • Norway / epidemiology
  • Ovarian Neoplasms / epidemiology*
  • Parity
  • Pregnancy
  • Registries
  • Risk Factors
  • Sex Characteristics
  • Twins*