Contrasting Epidemiology and Clinicopathology of Female Breast Cancer in Asians vs the US Population.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The incidence of breast cancer among younger East Asian women has been increasing rapidly over recent decades. This international collaborative study systemically compared the differences in age-specific incidences and pathological characteristics of breast cancer in East Asian women and women of predominantly European ancestry.

Methods

We excerpted analytic data from six national cancer registries (979 675 cases) and eight hospitals (18 008 cases) in East Asian countries and/or regions and, for comparisons, from the US Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program database. Linear regression analyses of age-specific incidences of female breast cancer and logistic regression analyses of age-specific pathological characteristics of breast cancer were performe

SUBMITTER: Lin CH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6910158 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature