Over time, a number of clinical studies showed that asymptomatic women given regular mammography have a lower breast cancer death rate compared with women who do not get mammography.
This suggests that lower overall breast cancer survival in the UK is not because women are being diagnosed at a later stage than in other countries, the study says.
Women who took aspirin had a 13 percent lower risk of breast cancer than those who didn't, while those who took ibuprofen had a 21 percent lower risk.
This type of study can't prove conclusively that NSAIDs are responsible for the lower risk of breast cancer.
The results of this study just show that women who are taking NSAIDs for other reasons probably have a lower risk of breast cancer.
Doctors have known for a while that women who first give birth in their early 20s have lower rates of breast cancer later in life than women who delay childbearing.
Although women in their 40s have a lower incidence of breast cancer compared with older women, the window to detect tumors before they become symptomatic is shorter (2 to 2.4 years) compared with women ages 70 to 74 (4 to 4.1 years), the authors of the ACOG guidelines said.
The fewer times a woman ovulates, the lower her risk of breast cancer.
The Japanese have lower rates of prostate and breast cancer than the U.S., a fact attributed to their greater intake of soy and low-fat foods.
Hospital employees as well as their dependents repeatedly had lower compliance rates for preventive screening for cancers- colorectal, breast, and cervical- as well as lower rates for cholesterol and lipid testing compared to the general workforce.
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In the study, the association between soy consumption and lower risk of death and cancer recurrence was seen in women like Mulrain with estrogen-sensitive breast cancers, and in women taking tamoxifen, a drug designed to prevent cancer recurrence by blocking the effects of estrogen in the breast tissue.
In a recent Japanese study that looked at nearly 500 Japanese women with stage I and II breast cancer, researchers found the women who drank more green tea before and after surgery had a lower chance of the cancer recurring.
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BioSante reported that with 2, 869 women enrolled and over 3, 000 women-years of exposure in it LibiGel Phase III cardiovascular and breast cancer safety study, there have been 17 adjudicated cardiovascular (CV) events, with a lower than anticipated event rate of approximately 0.57 percent.
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