Disentangling the roles of mammographic screening and HRT in recent breast cancer incidence trends in italy by analyses based on calendar time and time since screening activation

Breast Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 350-355

  Crocetti, Emanuele ^a   Buzzoni, Carlotta ^a   Falcini, Fabio ^b   Cortesi, Laura ^c   Lisi, Vincenzo De ^d   Ferretti, Stefano ^e   Tumino, Rosario ^f   Russo, Antonio ^g   Paci, Eugenio ^a  

^a ISPO   (Italy)

^b IRST   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^d Ospedale di Parma   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^f CIVILE M P AREZZO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^g ASL Citta di Milano   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Hormone replacement therapy; Incidence; Population based; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SCREENING; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ITALY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77956870098     PISSN: 1075122X     EISSN: 15244741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4741.2010.00928.x     Document Type: Article

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