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Breast cancer epidemiology

cancer incidence and mortality in women Among all cancers excluding non-melanoma skin...

Breast cancer

100,000 women in the Czech population (Figure 1, mortality curve). Figure 1: Breast cancer incidence and mortality in the Czech...

European Society of Breast Imaging (EUSOBI)

from mammography is compared to the reduction in mortality obtained with the test, and the concept of overdiagnosis is presented with a...


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Cancer incidence continues to rise: 1 in 5 men, 1 in 6 women

will die from cancer. Cancer incidence and mortality are rapidly growing worldwide, the report notes. "The increasing cancer...

Screening mammography is linked to a reduction in breast cancer mortality, a study shows

is linked to a reduction in breast cancer mortality, a study... linked to a subsequent decline in breast cancer mortality. New findings have just been published in the Journal of Medical Screening... Zealand) investigated trends in breast cancer mortality in New Zealand women in order to either corroborate or negate a causal... cancer mortality, screening mammography, New...

World Cancer Day: highlighting physical activity in the global fight against cancer

2012 (IARC), Cancer Incidence, Mortality and Prevalence Worldwide, Lyon, France, International Agency for Research on...

Increasing breastfeeding worldwide could prevent over 800,000 child deaths and 20,000 deaths from breast cancer every year

disease prevention, reduce infant mortality, and lessen inequity...The active and aggressive promotion of BMS by their...

For breast cancer patients, never too late to quit smoking

Those who quit smoking after diagnosis had lower mortality from breast cancer and respiratory cancer. “Smoking cessation programs s...

Benefits of mammography screening outweigh adverse effects for women aged 50–69 years

screening is effective in reducing breast cancer mortality for women aged 50–69 years, and that the benefit of reduced mortality extends t... breast self-examination, breast cancer mortality...

Most types of cancer not due to “bad luck”, says IARC

F.: GLOBOCAN 2012 v1.0, Cancer Incidence and Mortality Worldwide: IARC CancerBase No. 11 [online]. International Agency for Research...

IARC warns 'cancer burden growing at an alarming pace'

statistics on trends in cancer incidence and mortality worldwide, this new book reveals how the cancer burden is growing at an...

Breast cancer screening

management in the hope to reduce morbidity and mortality from a...

Personalised invitations of Czech citizens to cancer screening programmes

have the potential to significantly decrease mortality rates for above-mentioned cancers. However, participation rates of the...

Invitation to cancer screening is an investment which will pay off in the future

the form of improved cancer detection and lower mortality rates. Download IBA MU Press Release ( 53 kB) Photo...

Global cancer burden rises to 14.1 million new cases in 2012: Marked increase in breast cancers must be addressed

released the latest data on cancer incidence, mortality, and prevalence worldwide [1,... incidence has increased by more than 20%, while mortality has increased by 14%. Breast cancer is also the most common cause of cancer... cancer incidence, cancer prevalence, cancer mortality, global cancer burden, breast cancer, cervical...

Mammograms reveal response to common cancer drug

have a fifty per cent reduction in breast cancer mortality. This tool provides doctors with the possibility to assess whether a patient...

1.5 million premature cancer deaths could be prevented per year if targets set to reduce NCDs are met by 2025

that this assumes the 25% reduction in overall mortality is spread in an even proportion across the main NCDs (cancer, cardiovascular...

The Lancet publishes largest ever study on global burden of disease

H. et al. (2012). Age-specific and sex-specific mortality in 187 countries, 1970–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of D...

Breast cancer screening programmes: benefits outweigh harm

of mammographic screening on breast cancer mortality in Europe: a review of observational studies Journal of Medical Screening DOI:...

Physical activity linked to reduced mortality in breast and colon cancer patients

activity linked to reduced mortality in breast and colon cancer... associated with reduced breast and colon cancer mortality, but there is insufficient evidence on the association for other cancer types,... the relationship between physical activity and mortality and/or cancer biomarkers among cancer survivors. Read the whole article at... activity, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, mortality...

Long-term use of estrogen hormone therapy linked to higher risk for breast cancer

hormone therapy and breast cancer incidence and mortality. AACR 2012 Annual Meeting, Chicago (Illinois, USA), 31 March - 4 April 2012...

First global analysis of breast and cervical cancer estimates 2 million new cases worldwide

be given similar global priority to maternal mortality. Read the whole article at ecancer.org Reference Forouzanfar, M.... cancer, cervical cancer, incidence, mortality, developing countries, screening...

Drug prolongs lives of patients with hormone-sensitive breast cancer

disease, tamoxifen reduces 15-year breast cancer mortality by at least a third, whether or not chemotherapy has been given. Tamoxifen was...

Breast screening in the Czech Republic: achievements of the first seven years of the organized programme

stage is on the rise. And second, breast cancer mortality has stabilized. These two seemingly uninteresting facts can be interpreted as...

Worse outcome for breast cancer patients with other health problems

with certain other health problems have higher mortality rates than patients without these problems according to a study published... cancer, comorbidities, mortality rates, survival...

Poorer women less likely to survive breast cancer

These analyses allow the underlying background mortality to be taken into account. Deprivation is calculated using the national Index...

Reasons for poor breast cancer management in developing countries

is on the rise in developing countries and mortality is high. Now, a consensus review of cancer experts worldwide, published in... that are necessary for decreasing breast cancer mortality. In middle-resource countries, the main challenges are late-stage...

Yearly mammogram screening for women with a family history of breast cancer could save lives

tumour characteristics and projected effect on mortality in the prospective, single-arm, FH01 study. The Lancet Oncology DOI:...

Women in their forties have lower mammographic tumour detectability

in terms of tumour size, lifetime gained and mortality, have typically been poorer in women in their forties than women in their...