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The medical-profession and the general public are justly concerned with the control of cancer of the female breast. The sheer magnitude of the problem demands that it be given a great deal of attention. We estimate that, in the United States, 665,000 new cancers will be diagnosed in 1975 of which 88,700 or more than 1 out of every 8 will be a cancer of the female breast. Among women, breast cancer accounts for more than 1 out of every 4 cancers.
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Cutler, S.J., Devesa, S.S., Barclay, T.H.C. (1976). The Magnitude of the Breast Cancer Problem. In: St-Arneault, G., Band, P., Israël, L. (eds) Breast Cancer. Recent Results in Cancer Research / Fortschritte der Krebsforschung / Progrès dans les recherches sur le cancer, vol 57. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81043-5_1
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