Associations between Personal Care Product Use Patterns and Breast Cancer Risk among White and Black Women in the Sister Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many personal care products include chemicals that might act as endocrine disruptors and thus increase the risk of breast cancer.

Objective

We examined the association between usage patterns of beauty, hair, and skin-related personal care products and breast cancer incidence in the Sister Study, a national prospective cohort study (enrollment 2003-2009).

Methods

Non-Hispanic black (4,452) and white women (n=42,453) were examined separately using latent class analysis (LCA) to identify groups of individuals with similar patterns of self-reported product use in three categories (beauty, skin, hair). Multivariable Cox proportional hazards models were used to estimate hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for associations between product use an

SUBMITTER: Taylor KW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6066348 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature