Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access originally published online on March 11, 2008
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2008 100(6):444-445; doi:10.1093/jnci/djn017
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press.
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Response: Re: C-Reactive Protein and Risk of Breast Cancer
Affiliations of authors: Division of Preventive Medicine (SMZ, PMR), Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention (PMR), and Donald W. Reynolds Center for Cardiovascular Research (PMR), Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (PMR)
Correspondence to: Shumin M. Zhang, MD, ScD, Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 900 Commonwealth Ave East, Boston, MA 02215 (e-mail: shumin.zhang@channing.harvard.edu).
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We thank Zeleniuch-Jacquotte et al. for their interest in our paper, which showed no statistically significant positive association between baseline plasma C-reactive protein (CRP) levels and breast cancer risk in a prospective analysis involving 892 case patients among 27919 women followed-up for an average of 10 years in the Women's Health Study. They reported
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J Natl Cancer Inst 2008 100: 443-444.