| In the United States as a whole, breast cancer | | | | employed in developed countries where the |
| mortality rates have turned down to some extent in | | | | occurrence of breast cancer is highest, and a wide |
| current years. That this is a recent trend is obvious | | | | health care system is prepared. The value and |
| from the fact that as long as the twenty years from | | | | practicality of such screening programs in the |
| 1970-1990, death rates demonstrated a small but | | | | developing world is less obvious. Even though the |
| considerable growth for white women of roughly 0.3 | | | | developing world has a lower breast cancer incidence |
| percent per year and a more considerable upsurge of | | | | rate, women be inclined to have more advanced |
| 1.6 percent for black women. | | | | disease at diagnosis and a greater risk of dying from |
| In the United States, current view comes out to lend | | | | their disease. |
| more weight to mammography screening and earlier | | | | An important benefit of a screening program might |
| diagnosis as the main cause for declining mortality | | | | be to recover the in general quality of care, as said |
| rates, while in the UK and in Europe, where mortality | | | | by the editorialist, "but whether screening is the best |
| rates have been declining more lately, the main | | | | method of reaching these significant purposes |
| present theories seem to good turn the wide usage | | | | requires additional exploration." |
| of adjuvant tamoxifen as the cause. Because | | | | Early breast health education might be the important |
| tamoxifen lowers mortality by nearly a third in long | | | | to lowering breast cancer mortality rates in |
| term studies of women with ER-positive breast | | | | Washington, D.C., which has the highest rates in the |
| cancers (approximately 75 percent of those | | | | country, in accordance with research presented at |
| diagnosed) this is surely a reasonable account. | | | | the American Association for Cancer Research's |
| Regular screening of women between the ages of | | | | Seventh Annual International Conference on Frontiers |
| 40 and 59 can considerably decrease breast cancer | | | | in Cancer Prevention Research. |
| mortality in India, consistent with a study in the | | | | A new study proves that current declines in breast |
| September 9 online issue of the Journal of the | | | | cancer mortality rates have been most considerable |
| National Cancer Institute. | | | | amongst women with estrogen receptor |
| Breast cancer screening programs are habitually | | | | (ER)-positive tumors and women younger than 70. |