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Breast Cancer
Higher cancer rates likely to accompany westernization of Singaporean lifestyle
March 24th, 2005
According to a study from Singapore, "Breast cancer incidence in Sweden has always been approximately twice as high as in Singapore. In recent years, this difference is limited to postmenopausal women." K.S. Chia and colleagues, National University of Singapore, studied "the reasons behind these differences through the use of age-period-cohort modeling." "This population-based study included all breast cancer cases reported to the Swedish and the Singapore cancer registries from 1968 to 1997, with a total of 135,581 Swedish and 10,716 Singaporean women. Poisson regression using age-period and age-cohort models was used to determine the effects of age...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-03-24)
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