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Burden of Breast Cancer in Developing and Developed Countries

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Breast Cancer in Women of African Descent

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This chapter will describe the current burden of breast cancer in year 2000 and the projected burden of breast cancer up to year 2050 for women of African descent. The overall trends and distributions of cancers in developing and developed countries and changes in cancer trends will be described. The impact of an increasing incidence of breast cancer in African populations on the health, economic and social well being of affected populations will be discussed

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  1. Unit of Descriptive Epidemiology, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

    D. Max Parkin BSc, MD, MRCP (UK), Dip.Soc.Med. (Edin), FFCM

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  1. British Columbia Cancer Agency, Nanaimo, Canada

    Christopher Kwesi O. Williams (Senior Editor) (Senior Editor)

  2. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

    Christopher Kwesi O. Williams (Senior Editor) (Senior Editor)

  3. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Olufunmilayo I. Olopade (Editor) (Editor)

  4. University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center, Birmingham, AL, USA

    Carla I. Falkson (Editor) (Editor)

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Parkin, D.M. (2006). Burden of Breast Cancer in Developing and Developed Countries. In: Williams, C.K.O., Olopade, O.I., Falkson, C.I. (eds) Breast Cancer in Women of African Descent. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-3664-4_1

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