Breast cancer mortality in Spain: Has it really declined for all age groups?

Abstract

Introduction: Incidence in Spain due to breast cancer has increased over the last few years, nevertheless mortality has decreased, especially since 1992. Despite this general decrease in mortality, the intensity has been different in all age groups. The main objective of this paper is to fit the mortality due to breast cancer for different age groups in Spain during Results: We found an evident decreasing trend during the last few years of the fit (1993)(1994)(1995)(1996)(1997)(1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008), furthermore we expect a decrease in the mortality due to breast cancer during the years of the forecast. Despite this decrease, the mortality rates have different intensities for each age group. Younger and central ages groups can notice an evident decreasing trend and extend it to forecast, on the other hand, for older age groups the trend in mortality seems to be stable.

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