Decline in US breast cancer rates after the Women's Health Initiative: socioeconomic and racial/ethnic differentials.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We investigated whether there were socioeconomic and racial/ethnic disparities in recent reported declines in overall US breast cancer incidence rates attributed to post-2002 declines in hormone therapy use following publication of the Women's Health Initiative study.

Methods

We analyzed 1992-2005 US breast cancer incidence data from the US Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Result (SEER) 13 Registries Database, stratified by race/ethnicity, county income level, age, and estrogen receptor (ER) status.

Results

As we hypothesized, between 1992 and 2005, the temporal pattern of rising and then falling US breast cancer incidence rates occurred only among White non-Hispanic women who lived in high-income counties, were aged 50 years and older, and had ER-positiv

SUBMITTER: Krieger N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2837433 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature