Recent increase of breast cancer incidence among women under the age of forty
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- 29 May 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in British Journal of Cancer
- Vol. 96 (11) , 1743-1746
- https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6603783
Abstract
Using data from the Geneva Cancer Registry, we found that in 2002–2004, breast cancer incidence in women aged 25–39 years increased by 46.7% per year (95% CI: 7.1–74.0, P=0.015), which surveillance or detection bias may not fully explain.Keywords
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