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):1817-1818; doi:10.1093/jnci/djm225
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press.
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Re: Breast Cancer Incidence, 1980–2006: Combined Roles of Menopausal Hormone Therapy, Screening Mammography, and Estrogen Receptor Status
Affiliations of authors: Unit of Epidemiology (AP, MT, NS) and Piedmont Cancer Registry (SR, RZ, FR), Centro per la Prevenzione Oncologica, Turin, Italy
Correspondence to: Antonio Ponti, MD, MPH, Centro per la Prevenzione Oncologica, Unit of Epidemiology, via S. Francesco da Paola, 31, Turin, TO 10123 Italy (e-mail: antonio.ponti@cpo.it).
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In contrast to the results reported by Glass et al. (1), who showed a marked decrease in breast cancer incidence in 2003 in women members of the Kaiser Permanente Northwest prepaid health plan, we observed a drop in breast cancer incidence during 1999–2001 but not during 2001–2003 in the population of Turin, Italy. This city has been covered
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