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natalie 29th March 2013 |
I read somewhere that there could be a connection with drinking milk! Chinese don't drink milk and their rates are very low. Something about hormones in the milk. Research it! |
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Gerard Taylor 9th September 2012 |
'The China Study' by T. Colin Campbell gives the reason why countries following a diet high in animal protein and milk have higher rates of breast cancer than rural China, which has a very low rate. It is to do with a longer reproductive cycle and subsequent longer exposure to estrogen for Western women. |
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ray 15th February 2011 |
The National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre of Australia report that one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer before the age of 85 years in Australia. That is 12,500 per 100,000 not 21.6 per 100,000 |
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Samuel+Augustus+Jennings 19th August 2010 |
Why do First World countries have the highest rates of breast cancer? |
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Samuel Augustus Jennings 19th August 2010 |
Why do First World countries have the highest breast cancer rates? |
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Ian Graham Staff Editor 15th May 2005 |
The risk of dying from breast cancer has been falling rapidly for 15 years because the drugs used to treat the disease have been effective at stopping the cancer from returning, according to an analysis published in The Lancet medical journal. Researchers led by scientists at Oxford University analyzed the combined evidence from 194 studies of more than 145,000 women with early stage breast cancer who were treated with drugs that were being tested during the 1980s. The analysis found that combined chemotherapy and hormone therapy could cut the risk of death within 15 years of diagnosis in half. For women of any age with hormone-sensitive breast cancer — the most common type — tamoxifen therapy for five years reduced the breast cancer death rate over the next 15 years by about one-third. The review is the fourth analysis to be conducted by the same group of scientists on the largest database of patients for any type of cancer. Earlier analyses measured the effect of various drugs on recurrence and survival over five and 10 years. The last overview, in 2000, found that improved treatments over the preceding decade had reduced breast cancer death rates by up to 25 percent among some groups in Britain and the United States. About 1.15 million new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed every year worldwide. |
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Karen Collins 28th December 2004 |
Iceland has a national cancer registry.The Icelandic Cancer Registry contains information on all cancer cases occurring in Iceland since 1955 and all breast cancer cases since 1910.This extensive documentation has caused Iceland to be on top of the charts.A recent study conducted in Iceland & documented in the LANCET(Oct 24,1998) reveals that a specific gene, BRCA may hold the key as far as risk factors are concerned. In the USA, which should be a high risk zone , early detection of the BRCA1 & BRCA2 gene mutations, have caused women to turn towards prophylactic mastectomy. Perhaps this study which shows a lower risk than was previously thought will help women in postponing the prophylactic procedure, which causes untold emotional trauma. |
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