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Breast Cancer
National University reports research in breast cancer
March 27th, 2008
" In 2003, for the first time, US breast cancer incidence rates have fallen. Experts argue whether this is due to the reduced uptake of screening mammography or to lower use of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)," scientists in Singapore, Singapore report. "This study aims to disentangle the respective impact of screening and HRT on age-incidence rates and histology of breast cancer, by comparing two populations with comparably high levels of screening mammography, but with different prevalence of HRT. We included all invasive breast cancers recorded at the Geneva cancer registry (n = 4,909) and the Netherlands Cancer Registry (n = 152,428) between 1989-2003. We...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-03-27)
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