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Recent increase of breast cancer incidence among women under the age of forty

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BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANCER
Volume 96, Issue 11, Pages 1743-1746

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NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6603783

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breast cancer; young patients; trend; incidence rates; cancer registry; population-based study

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Using data from the Geneva Cancer Registry, we found that in 2002 - 2004, breast cancer incidence in women aged 25 - 39 years increased by 46.7% per year (95% CI: 7.1 - 74.0, P = 0.015), which surveillance or detection bias may not fully explain.

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