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Rebecca Voelker

JAMA. 2009;301(13):1325-1326.

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Mounting evidence shows that Hispanic women appear more likely than white or black women to have hereditary forms of breast cancer, raising important implications for more targeted screening and early cancer detection.

"[This] is an issue that affects the United States because of the large and growing population of Hispanics in this country," said Elena Martinez, PhD, of the University of Arizona's Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health in Tucson.

Research showed that breast cancer in Mexican American women is less likely to be detected with mammography than by self-examination. (Photo credit: Larry Mulvehill/www.sciencesource.com)

Martinez is a co-leader of the 3-year-old ELLA Binational Breast Cancer Study, a collaboration among investigators in the United States and Mexico. Funded by the National Cancer Institute and the Avon Foundation, the initiative aims to determine common types of cancer and specific cancer risk factors in women of Mexican . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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