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Study assesses early cancer deaths in women aged 40-74 years in north Sweden.
2004 DEC 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- An analysis of lethal breast cancer cases in northern Sweden found that that most deaths occurred in women whose disease had already reached an advanced stage when the cancer was detected.
P. Bordas, Sunderby Hospital, Lulea, Sweden, and colleagues explained that the purpose of their study "was to analyze individual cases of lethal breast cancer and not to evaluate the screening program" that had been launched 5 years before in the region.
"Women aged 40-74 years who were diagnosed with breast cancer in 1990-94 and died on or before December 31, 1998, during the gradual introduction of organized mammography service screening in north Sweden, were included in the study," the researchers explained.
"Out of 342 breast cancer deaths, 280 (82%) were in symptomatic patients whose cancers were clinically detected. Most breast cancers that proved fatal were already in an advanced stage and/or of high histological grade at the time of detection.
"A shift towards a lower stage was seen among screen-detected and interval-detected fatal cases," Bordas and coworkers reported.
They noted that "in a few of the cases with ...
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