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Global Breast Cancer Incidence And Mortality Trends
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It has long puzzled researchers why African-American women are more likely to die from breast cancer than white women, even though white women have a higher incidence of the disease. Now, a new hypothesis that will be published in an upcoming issue of the International Journal of Surgery suggests that the high mortality rate among black women may be because more black women than white women get breast cancer before menopause, when their surgery to remove their tumor may have a higher risk of...
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Hormone Replacement Therapy and Breast Cancer Incidence
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The Breast Cancer Mortality Rate is Higher Among African Americans
By Beth Brophy, Health Expert
Although breast cancer is less common among black women than white women, the mortality rate is higher among blacks, which has long puzzled... Read more »
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Does Breast Cancer Get Too Much Attention as Compared to Other...
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This year, about a quarter of a million American women will be diagnosed with breast cancer, and about 40,000 will die of breast cancer.... Read more »
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Treatment for Metastatic, Recurrent Breast Cancer: HER2 Status and...
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New Studies: Cancer Deaths Decline Overall and Breast Density Linked...
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High blood pressure linked to breast cancer mortality
A new study has found that high blood pressure may account for the mortality differences between white and African American women who have breast... Read more »
Physical fitness may lower breast cancer mortality
Aerobically fit women are less likely to die of breast cancer compared to their sedentary peers, a new study suggests. University of South Carolina... Read more »
Breast cancer mortality rises with BMI
A new study has found that patients with a higher body mass index (BMI) are 52 percent more likely to die from breast cancer than women with a lower... Read more »
Breast MRI and the New American Cancer Society Guidelines for ...
My technician recently told me, just before sending me gliding through an MRI tube, that MRI scans were once an uncommon breast exam. He performed... Read more »
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