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Risk factor information collected during a telephone interview focused on exposures before and after the first breast cancer diagnosis. Treatment and tumor characteristics were abstracted from medical records. Multivariable conditional logistic regression was used to estimate rate ratios (RR) and 95% CIs. <\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p> OC use before the first breast cancer diagnosis was not associated with risk of asynchronous bilateral breast cancer (RR = 0.88; 95% CI, 0.67 to 1.16). OC use after breast cancer diagnosis was also not significantly associated with risk (RR = 1.56; 95% CI, 0.71 to 3.45). Risk did not increase with longer duration of use or among women who had begun using OCs at a younger age. No evidence of an increased risk of asynchronous bilateral breast cancer was observed with PMH use before (RR = 1.21; 95% CI, 0.90 to 1.61) or after breast cancer diagnosis (RR = 1.10; 95% CI, 0.67 to 1.77). 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