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 …

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

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 …

Factors that increase the risk of cancer during adult life may also increase the risk of cancer
when they act in utero (eg, ionising radiation and diethylstilboestrol in human beings and …

Background Oestrogen is an established growth factor in breast cancer. There has,
therefore, been much discussion about whether women should be advised against …

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 …

THERE is considerable evidence that endocrine fea-tures contribute to the aetiology and
pathogenesis of breast cancer, but despite extensive investigation the hormonal …

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 …

It is suspected that diet influences the risk of getting breast cancer. A study of diet and breast
cancer was done among 200 Singapore Chinese women with histologically confirmed …