… Our results, based on 24,740 cases drawn from the general medical practice, confirm that
the TNM staging system for breast cancer is useful for estimating prognosis. Nonetheless, …

… The authors criticized current lifetime risk assessment methodologies for failing to account
for prevalent cases of cancer (ie, patients who had breast cancer diagnosed at an earlier age …

… breast cancer at some time during her life (15). As a cause of cancer deaths, breast cancer
ranks second to lung cancer. In 1995, an estimated 182,000 new cases of breast cancer and …

… cases and with breast cancer and endometrial cancer cases … cancer cases and were chosen
so that their age distribution (within 5-year intervals) equaled that of the breast cancer cases…

… advantage of a large multicentre case-control study on breast cancer carried out in Italy. …
condition for breast cancer (Kazer, 1995), were rare both among cases and controls in our study. …

… Ultimately, formal segregation analysis demonstrated the existence of an autosomal
dominant pattern of inheritance for a small percentage of cases of breast cancer. The data …

… A total of 50 cases of breast cancer have so far been found who had previously been treated
for pulmonary tuberculosis. Of these 40 had been given artificial pneumothorax therapy, …

… Likewise, in those cases of breast cancer in which marked familial aggregation is seen,
newly developed probes for marker genes will be useful. Finally, it is also likely that exposures …

… of our cases were women diagnosed as having breast cancer … with breast cancer prior to this
age or with ovarian cancer. … 5-year increments of age at breast cancer onset, were closest to …

… of the lesions in a case of malignant tumors and to … in breast cancer cases. The objective
of the current study was to analyze a sufficiently large series of consecutive breast cancer cases …