Breast cancer rises in India

Sanjit Bagchi

Canadian Medical Association Journal · 2008 · 29 citations · 0 references

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India faces a potential breast cancer epidemic over the next decade as women adopt Western lifestyles by marrying and bearing children later in life, oncology experts say. With women nursing fewer children and weaning them earlier, altering hormone flows and putting them at higher risk of