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Breast Cancer in Elderly Women

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Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in American women aside from skin cancer, and the second leading cause of cancer death, exceeded only by lung cancer. It is estimated that there were 182,460 new breast cancer cases diagnosed in the United States in 2008, and 40,480 deaths. In addition to invasive breast cancer, carcinoma in situ (CIS), the earliest form of breast cancer, accounted for about 67,770 new cases in 2008 [1].

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