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. 2022 Sep 9;114(9):1308-1309.
doi: 10.1093/jnci/djac074.

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Brittny C Davis Lynn et al. J Natl Cancer Inst. .
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Figure 1.
Net drifts (model‐based estimates of annual percent change in age‐adjusted rates) for estrogen receptor (ER)–negative breast cancer incidence among women aged 50‐69 years and 70‐84 years by race or ethnicity and The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program registry. Posterior medians with 95% credible intervals are shown. SF = San Francisco; SJ = San Jose.

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