Article: Rates of advanced breast cancer lower in The Netherlands due to mammography.

2004 NOV 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Public health specialists in The Netherlands credit the country's breast cancer screening program with reducing incidence of advanced disease.

"The effect of the implementation of the Dutch breast cancer screening program during 1990-1997 on the incidence rates of breast cancer, particularly advanced breast cancer, was analyzed according to stage at diagnosis in seven regions, where no screening took place before 1990," said J. Fracheboud and colleagues, University Medical Center of Rotterdam.

"The Netherlands Cancer Registry provided detailed data on breast cancer incidence in 1989-1997 by tumor stage, age, and ...

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