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. 2007 Jun 4;96(11):1743-6.
doi: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6603783. Epub 2007 May 29.

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

C Bouchardy  1 , G Fioretta, H M Verkooijen, G Vlastos, P Schaefer, J-F Delaloye, I Neyroud-Caspar, S Balmer Majno, Y Wespi, M Forni, P Chappuis, A-P Sappino, E Rapiti
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Recent increase of breast cancer incidence among women under the age of forty

C Bouchardy et al. Br J Cancer. .

Abstract

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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Trends(logarithmic scale) in annual breast cancer incidence rates by age group in Geneva, Switzerland.
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