Breast Cancer

Stopping hormone therapy did not reduce cancer risk for African-Americans

Published in Medical Imaging Week, May 3rd, 2008

The decreased incidence of invasive breast cancer in the United States seen in 2002 and 2003 did not extend to women of African ancestry, researchers from the University of Chicago Medical Center report at the 2008 annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in San Diego.

Breast cancer incidence rates in U.S. women over 50 declined sharply during 2002 and 2003. But this decline, the researchers report, was confined to Caucasians.

For Caucasian women aged 50 to 69, the rate of invasive breast cancer, which was stable from 2000 to mid-2002, decreased by more than two percent every three months during the second half of 2002 and all...

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Source: Medical Imaging Week (2008-05-03)

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