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- Title
A population-based study of Kurdish breast cancer in northern Iraq: Hormone receptor and HER2 status. A comparison with Arabic women and United States SEER data.
- Abstract
The article presents a population-based study which investigates the hormone receptor (HR) and HER2 expression among Kurdish women and Arabic women, and compares it with the U.S. Surveillance Epidemiology and End Result (SEER) data. The study reveals that low age standardized and age specific breast cancer incidence rates were found in Kurdish women compared to the U.S. It also shows that the majority of breast cancer was ER+/HER2-.
- Subjects
UNITED States; HORMONE receptors; BREAST cancer statistics; ESTROGEN receptors; KURDISH women
- Publication
BMC Women's Health, 2012, Vol 12, Issue 1, p16
- ISSN
1472-6874
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/1472-6874-12-16