Should we use incidence, survival or mortality to assess breast cancer trends in European women?
Milena Sant*, Silvia Francisci, Riccardo Capocaccia, Arduino Verdecchia, Claudia Allemani and Franco Berrino
Correspondence *Department of Preventive and Predictive Medicine, Istituto Nazionale per lo, Studio e la Cura dei Tumori, Via Venezian 1, Milan 20131, Italy
Email milena.sant@istitutotumori.mi.it
No single indicator provides unambiguous information regarding the population burden and dynamics of breast cancer. Milena Sant and co-authors discuss the trends in incidence, survival and mortality for patients with breast cancer in Western Europe and suggest a strategy for analysis of these data.
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