Breast cancer mortality is declining in the United States, as well as in certain other
industrialized areas—such as Canada, Austria, Germany, and the United Kingdom …

Background Worldwide, breast cancer is the most common cancer and is the leading cause
of cancer death among women. Methods To describe global trends, we compared age …

This paper describes trends in the primary measures of breast cancer. Data on incidence
and mortality are drawn from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program, and …

A variety of statistics are used to quantify the burden (occurrence and outcome) of cancer
generally and of breast cancer specifically. When undertaking any cancer control program …

One in ten of all new cancers diagnosed worldwide each year is a cancer of the female
breast, and it is the most common cancer in women in both developing and developed …

In this article, the American Cancer Society (ACS) provides estimates of new breast cancer
cases and deaths in 2006 and describes trends in incidence, mortality, and survival for …

Among US women, breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer (excluding skin
cancers) and the second leading cause of cancer death, following lung cancer. In 2012, an …

In this article, the American Cancer Society provides an overview of female breast cancer
statistics in the United States, including trends in incidence, mortality, survival, and …

PIP: The most common cancer in US women and the 2nd leading cause of cancer death is
breast cancer. Between 1980-1987 in the US. age-adjusted incidence rates of breast cancer …

Breast cancer risk is increasing in most Asian female populations, but little is known about
the long‐term mortality trend of the disease among these populations. We extracted data for …