Executive summary Women interact with cancer in complex ways, as healthy individuals
participating in cancer prevention and screening activities, as individuals living with and …

Occurrence of male breast cancer, a rare disease, peaks at age 71 years. Familial cases
usually have BRCA2 rather than BRCA1 mutations. Occupational risks include high …

Every year, more than 2 million women worldwide are diagnosed with breast or cervical
cancer, yet where a woman lives, her socioeconomic status, and agency largely determines …

Our focus is on looking forwards. We are not interested in descriptive pieces that cover
known ground or describe the problem, but instead papers that extend understandings and …

Breast and cervical cancer are major threats to the health of women globally, particularly in
low-income and middle-income countries. Radical progress to close the global cancer …

Background Adjuvant endocrine therapies such as tamoxifen, goserelin, and oophorectomy
improve survival for premenopausal women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer …

920 THE LANCET• Vol 353• March 13, 1999 as well. 5 The US Congress has only recently
required health plans to pay for breast reconstruction, 6 whereas reconstruction has been …

Cancer rates worldwide are expected to soar by 50% over the next 20 years, according to
the World Cancer Report published by WHO on April 3, unless action is taken to tackle …

Objective To evaluate the breast, cervical, ovarian, lung, and colorectal cancer literatures
using a novel application of the cancer disparities grid to identify disparities along domains …

The longer a woman is exposed to cycling reproductive hormones the higher her risk of
breast cancer. If she has an early menarche or a late menopause, or both, her risk of breast …