Breast Cancer Worldwide

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Japanese women are diagnosed with — and die of — breast cancer at rates that are closer to those of less-developed countries than to other industrialized countries. When Japanese women move to North America, their rates start to rise.

Source: International Agency for Research on Cancer, GLOBOCAN 2002
Reproduced with permission from Nutrition Action

(As countries become more developed, increasing amounts of chemicals are used for their emerging industrial and agricultural activities. Do you think there may be a connection between the higher incidence of breast cancer in the more industrialized nations?)