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2 Epidemiology of Breast Cancer
Pages 15-20

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... INCIDENCE AND MORTALITY At birth, females face a one in eight chance that breast cancer will clevelop over a lifetime (American Cancer Society, 20021. In 2002, there were an estimated 203,500 new cases of invasive breast cancer (ancT 47,700 cases of cluctal in situ cancer)
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... Local stage describes cancer confined to the breast, regional stage tumors have spreacT to the lymph nocles, ancT cTistant stage cancers have metastasized (spreacTto cTistant sites) (American Cancer Society, 20011.
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... Most oncologists believe that lobular carcinoma in situ is not a true cancer, but is instead a marker of increased risk for cleveloping future invasive cancer (American Cancer Society, 20011. SOME RISK FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH BREAST CANCER Age The risk of breast cancer ancT cleath from breast cancer increases sharply with ace for both white ancT African American women (Figure 2-2)
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... Age-specific incidence and death rates, by race, United States, 1994-1998. American Cancer Society, Surveillance Research, 2001.
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... American Cancer Society, Surveillance Research, 2001. DATA SOURCES: NCI Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program, 2001, and National Center for Health Statistics, 2001.
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... . A recent literature review of clinical trials anti retrospective studies in the United States that compared survival between white women anti African American women with breast cancer founcI that socioeconomic status replaces race as a predictor of worse outcome in many studies (Cross et al., 20021.
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