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Introduction Breast cancer is the second most common cancer among women in the world; in …

Population statistics indicate that age-adjusted breast-cancer mortality rates began to
decline during the early 1990s in many developed countries. For several decades before …

Breast cancer is the commonest cause of cancer death in women worldwide. Rates vary
about five-fold around the world, but they are increasing in regions that until recently had low …

Sir—During the 1980s there was increasing use in the UK and the USA of hormonal and
cytotoxic treatments for early breast cancer (and for advanced disease), and meta-analyses …

1 Peto R, Boreham J, Clarke M, Davies C, Beral V. UK and USA breast cancer deaths down
25% in year 2000 at ages 20–69 years. Lancet 2000; 355: 1822. 2 Veronesi U …

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide, comprising 23% of all
cancers, with more than 1 million new cases per year. 1 The main risk factors are related to …

Background Breast cancer has distinct causes, prognoses, and outcomes and effects in
patients at premenopausal and postmenopausal ages. We sought to assess the global …

The worldwide burden of cancer is substantial and growing. More than one in six deaths
globally are due to cancer, with 19 million new cancer cases and 10 million new cancer …

In general, rates of breast cancer are lower in low-income and middle-income countries
(LMCs) than they are in more industrialised countries of North America and Europe. This …

The health burden of cancer is increasing in China, with more than 1· 6 million people being
diagnosed and 1· 2 million people dying of the disease each year. As in most other …