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Researchers at Aarhus University target breast cancer

Published in Women's Health Weekly, July 10th, 2008

According to a study from Aarhus, Denmark, "Chemotherapy and radiation therapy may increase risk for interstitial pneumonitis (IP) in breast cancer patients, but there are little current population-based data on IP incidence in these patients. We assessed population-based incidence rates (IRs) of IP among Danish breast cancer patients and compared these with IRs for the Danish general population."

"Through the Danish Cancer Registry, we identified all Danish breast cancer patients (n = 35 823) diagnosed between 1994 and 2004. Treatment data were obtained from the Danish Breast Cancer Cooperation Group database, and data on IP, from the Danish National Registry of...

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