Time Trends of Breast Cancer Incidence of Two Periods in Ahmedabad Urban Agglomeration Area
Journal Title: GUJARAT CANCER SOCIETY RESEARCH JOURNAL - Year 2017, Vol 19, Issue 2
Abstract
Breast cancer is the leading female cancer across the globe. It was thought that due to higher rural population in India, leading female cancer is cervical cancer. But as years passes and due to the effect of urbanization breast cancer scenario in India is also changing. To see this trend in Ahmedabad urban area, Age Adjusted Rates (AAR) of breast cancer is compared of two periods 1990-94 and 2007-11. The data of Population Based Cancer Registry is used for comparison. It is seen that speed of increasing the breast cancer in second period is almost double than the previous period. More cases from early age group (15-34) are seen in later period (2007- 11) compared to earlier years (1990-94).
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Janmesh Shah, Anand Shah, Himanshu Patel, Vishruti Pandya, Geeta Joshi
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