Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access originally published online on November 27, 2007
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2007 99(23):1815; doi:10.1093/jnci/djm209
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Re: Declines in Invasive Breast Cancer and Use of Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy in a Screening Mammography Population
Affiliations of authors: California Cancer Registry, Public Health Institute, Sacramento, CA (ASR); Northern California Cancer Center, Fremont, CA (CAC)
Correspondence to: Anthony S. Robbins, MD, PhD, California Cancer Registry, Public Health Institute, 1700 Tribute Road, Suite 100, Sacramento, CA 95815 (e-mail: arobbins@ccr.ca.gov).
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The recent, sudden declines in breast cancer incidence in the United States (1,2) are unprecedented, and their origins are of great relevance to breast cancer prevention. To date, large population-based declines in breast cancer have been reported not only for the United States but also for Germany and New Zealand, although not for Norway, Sweden, and the Netherlands. Because hormone therapy (HT) use declined substantially
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