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Article: State variation in mortality rates due to later stage at presentation.(breast cancer)
- Article from:
- Cancer Weekly
- Article date:
- April 1, 2003
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2003 APR 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- State variation in mortality rates was due to later stage at presentation.
"In 2001 approximately 40000 deaths from breast cancer will occur in the United States. Although some estimates suggest possible state-to-state variations in breast cancer mortality rates, the reasons for such differences remain unknown. Our objective was to confirm whether breast cancer mortality rates are significantly different by state and to identify predictors for such variation," researchers in the United States report.
"Administrative data from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) report were used to determine ...