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Breast Cancer
Research from Kuwait University, Medical Department has provided new data on breast cancer
March 19th, 2009
"Little information is available on the survival of male breast cancer patients because the disease is extremely rare in men. Moreover, previous reports on the prognosis of male breast cancer have been conflicting," researchers in Kuwait report. "We took advantage of a number of large, nationwide registries in Sweden to evaluate the prognostic value of sex in breast cancer patients. A population-based cohort of 269 male and 30 011 female breast cancer patients born after 1935 and diagnosed with primary breast cancer between 1970 and 1997 was generated by linking a number of Swedish registries, including the Swedish Cancer Registry, the Cause of Death Registry, the...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-03-19)
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