Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access originally published online on May 13, 2008
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2008 100(10):751-752; doi:10.1093/jnci/djn112
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Published by Oxford University Press 2008.
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Racial Differences in Breast Cancer Trends in the United States (2000–2004)
Affiliations of authors: Biostatistics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD (RMP, RKM, WFA); Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Correspondence to: Ruth M. Pfeiffer, PhD, Biostatistics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD (e-mail: pfeiffer@mail.nih.gov).
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A decrease in US breast cancer incidence of at least 6.7% from 2002 to 2003 has been reported (1) and attributed to a reduction in hormone replacement therapy (HRT), following the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) report in July 2002. Two recent studies (2,3) described changes in breast cancer incidence for different racial and ethnic groups using data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and
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