Breast cancer risk among first-generation migrants in the Netherlands
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- 20 April 2004
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in British Journal of Cancer
- Vol. 90 (11), 2135-2137
- https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6601821
Abstract
We investigated breast cancer incidence in migrants in the Netherlands in 1988-1998. The standardised incidence ratio for breast cancer in Northwest-Netherlands was statistically significantly reduced for women born in Surinam (0.56), Turkey (0.29) and Morocco (0.22). The proportion of women with advanced stages (III and IV) did not differ significantly between migrants and women born in the Netherlands.Keywords
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