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Journal of the National Cancer Institute
Breast cancer incidence in Spain drops in early 2000s after decades of increasing rates
November 9th, 2009
After a steady increase of invasive breast cancer cases in Spanish women during the 1980s and 1990s, incidence rates abruptly declined starting in 2001-a trend most likely explained by a period effect linked to screening saturation, according to a new study published online October 26 in the . Marina Pollan, M.D., Ph.D., of the Centro Nacional de Epidemiologia, Instituto de Salud Carlos III in Madrid, and colleagues identified invasive breast cancer cases from population-based cancer registries in Spain that had at least 10 years of uninterrupted registration over the period 1980. The researchers took into account the starting year of the corresponding breast cancer...
Source: Clinical Oncology Week (2009-11-09)
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