Obesity Trend May Hurt Improvement in Breast Cancer Mortality
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009Declines in breast cancer death rates in the U.S. may be threatened by a trend among women toward obesity, a risk factor for the disease, according to a report by the Atlanta-based American Cancer Society.
The mortality rate in the U.S. continued to drop 2 percent annually from 1996 to 2006, the most recent year with [...]