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. 2004 Jun 1;90(11):2135-7.
doi: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6601821.

Breast cancer risk among first-generation migrants in the Netherlands

O Visser  1 , K van der Kooy, A M van Peppen, F G Ory, F E van Leeuwen
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Breast cancer risk among first-generation migrants in the Netherlands

O Visser et al. Br J Cancer. .

Abstract

We investigated breast cancer incidence in migrants in the Netherlands in 1988-1998. The standardised incidence ratio for breast cancer in Northwest-Netherlands was statistically significantly reduced for women born in Surinam (0.56), Turkey (0.29) and Morocco (0.22). The proportion of women with advanced stages (III and IV) did not differ significantly between migrants and women born in the Netherlands.

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Figure 1
Standardised incidence ratio (SIR) for invasive breast cancer according to country of birth in 1988–1998 in North-Holland and The Hague, the Netherlands (bars represent 95% CIs; reference population: the Netherlands 1989–1998).
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