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Breast Cancer
Reports from University of Texas advance knowledge in breast cancer
June 5th, 2008
According to recent research from the United States, "This study was to determine whether the proportion of death due to breast cancer changed over time in different cohorts of women diagnosed with breast cancer. We identified 316,149 women with breast cancer at age 20 or older during 1975-2003 from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results 9 tumor registries in the United States." "Logistic regression models were used to assess the effects of time period on the likelihood of dying because of breast cancer as underlying cause of death, adjusting for other factors. Overall, underlying cause of death was 52.8% due to breast cancer, 17.8% due to heart disease, and...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-06-05)
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