Posted 3/3/2013 by hhill
The headlines are very frightening: a recent study found that the incidence of advanced breast cancer at first diagnosis (meaning that the woman already has metastatic disease when the cancer is first found) has gone up a great deal in young women. The numbers are also scary: between 1967 and 2001, the numbers of women so affected in the United States jumped from 250 to 850 each year. If you account for the increase in population, it becomes a bit less bad: between 1967 and 2009, the rate doubled from 1.5 women per 100,000 to 3 women per 100,000.
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