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Chapter 9
Breast Cancer
Cancer in 15- to 29-Year-Olds in the United States
CHAPTER 9 BREAST CANCER
SEER AYA Monograph 112 National Cancer Institute
HIGHLIGHTS
Incidence
• Breast cancer in adolescents ... receptor status in breast cancer patients. Breast Cancer Res 2004;6:R488-98.
30. Ursin G, Ma H, Wu AH, et al.: Mammographic density and breast cancer in three e...
... for breast implant evaluation.
MRI is playing a greater role in screening for breast cancer (especially in
women with dense breasts who are at high risk for developing cancer) ,
staging breast ... cancers in the contralateral breasts of women diagnosed
with breast cancer. Liberman et al. (2003) performed a retrospective study
that included 223 women with known breast cance...
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Regions
Breast cancer Cervical cancer Ovarian cancer Corpus uteri cancer Colorectal cancer
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The burden of breast cancer
in developing countries
Recent evidence shows that in middle-income develop-
ing countries,...
... the forefront breast cancer research;
DoD FY12 Breast Cancer Postdoctoral Fellowship 2 Award 12
○ The relevance of the proposed research project to training the PI in breast
cancer; and
○ ... experience in breast cancer research, this application must focus on breast cancer
research. Applications must emphasize the PI’s high potential for success in becoming an
indep...
... occupational cancer. You hear about cancer the
tragedy for the individual, cancer the challenge for the medical profession,
cancer the result of smoking and bad diet. But at least one in every 10
cancers ... for causing cancer.
Asbestos and lung cancer and mesothelioma, a cruel and
invariably fatal cancer. Vinyl chloride exposure and liver
cancer. Work in the rubber industry a...