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Breast Cancer
Oncologist says disease is a public health problem in Brazil
April 6th, 2004
Breast cancer is a public health problem in Brazil: both incidence and mortality are increasing and not enough cancers are detected at an early stage, according to Jose Bines, MD, a medical oncologist at NCI Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro. "It is the number one cause of cancer death in Brazilian women," he told the 4th European Breast Cancer Conference in Hamburg, Germany. "More than 40,000 women were diagnosed with breast cancer and 9,000 women died from it in 2003. Thirty years ago eight in every 100,000 women died from breast cancer but this has increased to 12 women in every 100,000 now. Thirty percent of women with breast cancer still present with locally advanced...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2004-04-06)
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