Sentences with phrase «parous women with breast cancer»

In a prospective, pilot study we previously identified a decreased prevalence of FMc in the peripheral blood mononuclear cells of parous women with breast cancer compared to controls [16].

This finding supports the hypothesis that parous women with breast cancer fail to harbor a potential source of naturally acquired allogeneic immunity.

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FMc results were generated on 99 parous women, 54 with primary invasive breast cancer and 45 general population controls.

In this case - control study of breast cancer among parous women, women with breast cancer were more frequently deficient in FMc when compared to control women.

Both overall prevalence and quantity of FMc were significantly different between parous women with and without breast cancer.

Though having children and breast - feeding are known to lower a woman's risk of certain health issues — breast cancer is one — it doesn't mean a woman with a different reproductive history is less healthy: «Our data did not suggest that nulliparous [non-childbearing] women had poorer health as their BMI, physical activity levels, and smoking status were similar to parous women.»