Eloïse Berger, Amandine Gelot, Agnès Fournier, Laure Dossus, Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault, Gianluca Severi, Raphaële Castagné, Cyrille Delpierre
PURPOSE: Breast cancer (BC) characteristics are known to influence patients survival. Social differences have been reported by previous studies for those characteristics but questions persist because of inconsistent conclusions. We aimed to investigate the impact of education on BC stage, grade, and hormone receptor (HR) status, while adjusting for potential confounders including a broad set of health behaviors, anthropometric measures, and reproductive factors. METHODS: In the French E3N cohort, 5236 women developed a primary invasive BC for which there was available information on stage, grade, and HR status...
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