November 27, 2007
Disparities in Breast Cancer Risk
From HealthDay:
Women who live in urban areas appear to have more dense breast tissue than their suburban or rural counterparts, new research suggests.
The finding is potentially important because women with more dense breasts have a higher risk of breast cancer.
The study, which compared rural women from Greece to suburban and urban women in the United Kingdom, found that city-dwelling women were 54 percent more likely than their rural peers to have dense breasts.
Posted by Staff at 08:00 AM
Category: Breast Cancer; Health Disparities; Urban Health