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Breast Cancer Mortality

Study verifies biphasic relationship between age and mortality in breast cancer

"Modeling the relationship between age and mortality for breast cancer patients may have important prognostic and therapeutic implications." Scientists in Canada reported, "Data from 9 registries of the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program (SEER) of the United States were used. This study employed proportional hazards to model mortality in women with T1-2 breast cancers. The residuals of the model were used to examine the effect of age on mortality."

P. Tai and colleagues explained, "This procedure was applied to node-negative (N0) and...

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