Associations of Breast Cancer Risk Factors With Tumor Subtypes: A Pooled Analysis From the Breast Cancer Association Consortium Studies
Authors: Xiaohong R. Yang, Jenny Chang-Claude, Ellen L. Goode, Fergus J. Couch, Heli Nevanlinna, Roger L. Milne, Mia Gaudet, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Annegien Broeks, Angela Cox, Peter A. Fasching, Rebecca Hein, Amanda B. Spurdle, Fiona Blows, Kristy Driver, Dieter Flesch-Janys, Judith Heinz, Peter Sinn, Alina Vrieling, Tuomas Heikkinen, Kristiina Aittomäki, Päivi Heikkilä, Carl Blomqvist, Jolanta Lissowska, Beata Peplonska, Stephen Chanock, Jonine Figueroa, Louise Brinton, Per Hall, Kamila Czene, Keith Humphreys, Hatef Darabi, Jianjun Liu, Laura J. Van ‘t Veer, Flora E. van Leeuwen, Irene L. Andrulis, Gord Glendon, Julia A. Knight, Anna Marie Mulligan, Frances P. O’Malley, Nayana Weerasooriya, Esther M. John, Matthias W. Beckmann, Arndt Hartmann, Sebastian B. Weihbrecht, David L. Wachter, Sebastian M. Jud, Christian R. Loehberg, Laura Baglietto, Dallas R. English, Graham G. Giles, Catriona A. McLean, Gianluca Severi, Diether Lambrechts, Thijs Vandorpe, Caroline Weltens, Robert Paridaens, Ann Smeets, Patrick Neven, Hans Wildiers, Xianshu Wang, Janet E. Olson, Victoria Cafourek, Zachary Fredericksen, Matthew Kosel, Celine Vachon, Helen E. Cramp, Daniel Connley, Simon S. Cross, Sabapathy P. Balasubramanian, Malcolm W. R. Reed, Thilo Dörk, Michael Bremer, Andreas Meyer, Johann H. Karstens, Aysun Ay, Tjoung-Won Park-Simon, Peter Hillemanns, Jose Ignacio Arias Pérez, Primitiva Menéndez Rodríguez, Pilar Zamora, Javier Benítez, Yon-Dschun Ko, Hans-Peter Fischer, Ute Hamann, Beate Pesch, Thomas Brüning, Christina Justenhoven, Hiltrud Brauch, Diana M. Eccles, William J. Tapper, Sue M. Gerty, Elinor J. Sawyer, Ian P. Tomlinson, Angela Jones, Michael Kerin, Nicola Miller, Niall McInerney, Hoda Anton-Culver, Argyrios Ziogas, Chen-Yang Shen, Chia-Ni Hsiung, Pei-Ei Wu, Show-Lin Yang, Jyh-Cherng Yu, Shou-Tung Chen, Giu-Cheng Hsu, Christopher A. Haiman, Brian E. Henderson, Loic Le Marchand, Laurence N. Kolonel, Annika Lindblom, Sara Margolin, Anna Jakubowska, Jan Lubiński, Tomasz Huzarski, Tomasz Byrski, Bohdan Górski, Jacek Gronwald, Maartje J. Hooning, Antoinette Hollestelle, Ans M. W. van den Ouweland, Agnes Jager, Mieke Kriege, Madeleine M. A. Tilanus-Linthorst, Margriet Collée, Shan Wang-Gohrke, Katri Pylkäs, Arja Jukkola-Vuorinen, Kari Mononen, Mervi Grip, Pasi Hirvikoski, Robert Winqvist, Arto Mannermaa, Veli-Matti Kosma, Jaana Kauppinen, Vesa Kataja, Päivi Auvinen, Ylermi Soini, Reijo Sironen, Stig E. Bojesen, David Dynnes Ørsted, Diljit Kaur-Knudsen, Henrik Flyger, Børge G. Nordestgaard, Helene Holland, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Siranoush Manoukian, Monica Barile, Paolo Radice, Susan E. Hankinson, David J. Hunter, Rulla Tamimi, Suleeporn Sangrajrang, Paul Brennan, James McKay, Fabrice Odefrey, Valerie Gaborieau, Peter Devilee, P.E.A. Huijts, RAEM. Tollenaar, C. Seynaeve, Gillian S. Dite, Carmel Apicella, John L. Hopper, Fleur Hammet, Helen Tsimiklis, Letitia D. Smith, Melissa C. Southey, Manjeet K. Humphreys, Douglas Easton, Paul Pharoah, Mark E. Sherman, Montserrat Garcia-Closas
Journal: JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute (2010)

Previous studies have suggested that breast cancer risk factors are associated with estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) expression status of the tumors.