Seasonal variation in breast cancer diagnosis in Singapore

This study investigates seasonality in the diagnosis of 3219 female breast carcinoma cases reported between 1995–8 in Singapore. There is little evidence of marked seasonal variation. Angular regression suggested that observed differences in peak diagnosis with respect to menopausal status, tumour s...

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Autores principales: Gao, F, Machin, D, Khoo, K-S, Ng, E-H
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2001
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2363886/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11336468
http://dx.doi.org/10.1054/bjoc.2000.1654
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description This study investigates seasonality in the diagnosis of 3219 female breast carcinoma cases reported between 1995–8 in Singapore. There is little evidence of marked seasonal variation. Angular regression suggested that observed differences in peak diagnosis with respect to menopausal status, tumour size, ER and PR status may be chance. © 2001 Cancer Research Campaign http://www.bjcancer.com
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spelling pubmed-23638862009-09-10 Seasonal variation in breast cancer diagnosis in Singapore Gao, F Machin, D Khoo, K-S Ng, E-H Br J Cancer Short Communication This study investigates seasonality in the diagnosis of 3219 female breast carcinoma cases reported between 1995–8 in Singapore. There is little evidence of marked seasonal variation. Angular regression suggested that observed differences in peak diagnosis with respect to menopausal status, tumour size, ER and PR status may be chance. © 2001 Cancer Research Campaign http://www.bjcancer.com Nature Publishing Group 2001-05 /pmc/articles/PMC2363886/ /pubmed/11336468 http://dx.doi.org/10.1054/bjoc.2000.1654 Text en Copyright © 2001 Cancer Research Campaign https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material.If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Gao, F
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Seasonal variation in breast cancer diagnosis in Singapore
title Seasonal variation in breast cancer diagnosis in Singapore
title_full Seasonal variation in breast cancer diagnosis in Singapore
title_fullStr Seasonal variation in breast cancer diagnosis in Singapore
title_full_unstemmed Seasonal variation in breast cancer diagnosis in Singapore
title_short Seasonal variation in breast cancer diagnosis in Singapore
title_sort seasonal variation in breast cancer diagnosis in singapore
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2363886/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11336468
http://dx.doi.org/10.1054/bjoc.2000.1654
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