Originally posted by Prester John [/i]
>>heres a quote from the article
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In the same period, mortality from breast cancer in women has fallen by 20%
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So?? You still have no point? Are we supposed to guess? If your point is, ah ha, Modern Medicne is curing more breast cancer, then why don't you say so? But the fact is, the modest mortality rate decreases in some countries may have more to do with never contracting it in the first place due to factors such as child bearing, the age of first born, as well as a return to breast feeding and away from "formula".
"Breast cancer mortality rates are levelling off or beginning to decline in many western countries: analysis of time trends, age-cohort and age-period models of breast cancer mortality in 20 countries."
Hermon C, Beral V.
Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, UK.
"Age-standardised mortality rates for breast cancer were examined for 20 countries in Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand from 1950 to 1992 and age-birth cohort and age-period of death models were fitted to the data. Breast cancer mortality rates generally increased in the earlier decades, but more recently rates have levelled off or begun to decline in most countries..."
"...The birth cohort effects were suggestive of a decline in breast cancer rates among women born after about 1920 and were evident in many countries especially Canada, The Netherlands, The United Kingdom and the United States. The decline in mortality in women born after 1920 appeared to be in part related to a reduction in childlessness and a reduction in age at first birth in those generations...."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8611414&dopt=Abstract
-- Rouser
>>heres a quote from the article
quote:
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In the same period, mortality from breast cancer in women has fallen by 20%
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So?? You still have no point? Are we supposed to guess? If your point is, ah ha, Modern Medicne is curing more breast cancer, then why don't you say so? But the fact is, the modest mortality rate decreases in some countries may have more to do with never contracting it in the first place due to factors such as child bearing, the age of first born, as well as a return to breast feeding and away from "formula".
"Breast cancer mortality rates are levelling off or beginning to decline in many western countries: analysis of time trends, age-cohort and age-period models of breast cancer mortality in 20 countries."
Hermon C, Beral V.
Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, UK.
"Age-standardised mortality rates for breast cancer were examined for 20 countries in Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand from 1950 to 1992 and age-birth cohort and age-period of death models were fitted to the data. Breast cancer mortality rates generally increased in the earlier decades, but more recently rates have levelled off or begun to decline in most countries..."
"...The birth cohort effects were suggestive of a decline in breast cancer rates among women born after about 1920 and were evident in many countries especially Canada, The Netherlands, The United Kingdom and the United States. The decline in mortality in women born after 1920 appeared to be in part related to a reduction in childlessness and a reduction in age at first birth in those generations...."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8611414&dopt=Abstract
-- Rouser
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