RT Book, Section
A1 Huo, Dezheng
A1 Dignam, James
A2 Kuerer, Henry M.
SR Print(0)
ID 6405562
T1 Chapter 4. Epidemiology of Breast Cancer
T2 Kuerer's Breast Surgical Oncology
YR 2010
FD 2010
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-160178-8
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=6405562
RD 2024/04/19
AB Breast  cancer  is  the  most  common  cancer  among  women  both  in  the  United  States  and  in  the  world.  It  is  the  second  leading  cause  of  cancer  death  among  women  in  the  United  States.  Among  U.S.  women  in  2009,  approximately  192,370  new  cases  of  invasive  breast  cancer  and  62,280  carcinoma  in  situ  will  occur  and  40,170  will  die  from  breast  cancer.1  In  terms  of  its  global  burden,  there  are  about  1.05  million  new  cases  and  373,000  deaths  each  year  worldwide.2