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Breast Cancer
Research results from C. Hery and co-authors update knowledge of breast cancer
June 19th, 2008
"Mammography screening and menopause hormone therapy is essentially offered to women 50-69 years old. In 28 European ancestry countries, we quantified changes in breast cancer incidence and mortality using a joinpoint regression analysis from 1960 until last year of available data," scientists in Lyon, France report. "Since 1960, increases in incidence often in the order of 2%-3% per year occurred in all countries, mainly in women 50-69 years old whose incidence in eight countries surpassed the incidence in women 70 years old and more. In 10 countries, a decrease in incidence in women >= 70 years was noticeable in the last years of observation, but the magnitude of...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-06-19)
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