Open AccessBreast Cancer Trends Among Young Women in the United States
Author(s) -
Robert E. Tarone
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.901
H-Index - 173
eISSN - 1531-5487
pISSN - 1044-3983
DOI - 10.1097/01.ede.0000229195.98786.ee
Subject(s) - breast cancer , medicine , demography , mammography , incidence (geometry) , cancer , cohort study , cohort , obstetrics , gynecology , physics , sociology , optics
It has been suggested that exposures associated with industrialization have increased breast cancer risk among young women in recent decades in the United States despite data demonstrating declining breast cancer mortality in birth cohorts born after 1945.