British Asian women have lower breast cancer risk in women
Asian women living in England and Wales, a significantly lower risk of breast cancer than other women, suggests research in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. Moreover, when developing the disease, live longer than other women, research shows. South Asia are the largest ethnic group in the UK, nearly 3% of the population.Wales between 1986 and 1990, with the information that the National Cancer Registry. Their progress was monitored until 1995. Asian women are much younger than other women when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. An average of nearly 52 to nearly 63 years for other women. And three times as many of them were younger than 40 years. The rate of breast cancer among women in South Asia was lower: 40.5 per 100,000 compared to 57.
Difference of 29%. Adjusted for age, over 70% of Asian women five years after diagnosis was still alive, compared to almost 67% of all women with the disease. Prosperity is known to increase the health and survival, and in general, survival rates were 9% higher in the more affluent groups for all women. But even among the poor and disadvantaged, survival rates were between 3% and 8% higher among Asian women.Differences in how the disease progressed at the time of diagnosis. Click here to see the paper in its entirety: press.psprings.co.uk/jech/may/402_ch30965.pdf [Survival of breast cancer among South Asian women in England and Wales, J Epidemiol Community Health 2005, 59: 402 - 6] British Medical Association BMA House Tavistock Square London WC1H 9JP BMA.