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Breast Cancer
Study findings from L.A. Korde et al provide new insights into breast cancer
June 4th, 2009
According to recent research published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, "Historically, breast cancer incidence has been substantially higher in the United States than in Asia. When Asian women migrate to the United States, their breast cancer risk increases over several generations and approaches that for U.S. Whites." "Thus, modifiable factors, such as diet, may be responsible. In this population-based case-control study of breast cancer among women of Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino descent, ages 20 to 55 years, and living in San Francisco-Oakland (California), Los Angeles (California) and Oahu (Hawaii), we interviewed 597 cases (70%...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-06-04)
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