Breast cancer. Incidence, mortality and prospects for control

Hoffmann, C.E.; Hoffmann, C.E

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Breast cancer. Incidence, mortality and prospects for control

Hoffmann, C.E.

Australian Family Physician 22(1): 47-52

1993

ISSN/ISBN: 0300-8495

PMID: 8431173

Document Number: 418289

Breast cancer is the commonest cancer affecting women in Australia and in most other countries where adequate data are collected. Although mortality rates from breast cancer have changed little in the past 60 years its incidence is increasing and it therefore remains a significant public health problem. This article summarises epidemiological data and prospects for reducing mortality rates from the disease.