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# Postmenopausal breast cancer preventable
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/postmenopausal_breast_cancer_preventable_1105101114/
- Published: 2010-05-11T23:14:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T16:07:08.000Z
- Description: Analysing Swedish registry and international incidence data, Hemminki and colleagues report the gap between high- and low-incidence countries lies mainly in postmenopausal breast cancer, which rose over the past century. Rates also differed sharply between white Californians and Asian immigrants.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Disease, Health News, Breast Cancer, #vivvo-import

Women in the Western countries are at higher risk of breast cancer compared to those are in developing countries and the cause for the difference remains unidentified.

One study published in the May 8, 2010 issue of Breast Cancer Research and Treatment suggests that the difference in breast cancer incidence is found mostly in postmenopausal women.

For the study, Hemminki K and colleagues from German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ) analyzed data from the Swedish Family-Cancer Database and age-specific incidence data for low and high incidence populations from Cancer Incidence in Five Continenets IX and NORDCAN.

The researchers found "the main difference between high and low incidence areas is in postmenopausal cancer which has increased preferentially during the past century."

They also found large differences in incidence of breast cancer between while Californians and immigrants from China and Korea.

A health observer suggested that the study suggests that the breast cancer risk from a woman's diet and lifestyle, which is preventable, would manifest only decades later.

Breast cancer is diagnosed in more than 175,000 women each year in the United States and the disease kills about 50,000 annually in the country, according to the National Cancer Institute.

Jimmy Downs