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Abstract:
Conventional breast cancer (BrCA)risk factors explain 50% of variability in disease rates and change in incidence over time. The past two generations of American women have experienced major changes in physical activity, preparing and eating food, and increases in the prevalence of overweight. These factors may exert powerful influences on physiologic processes leading to cancer. This case control study aims to investigate the relationship between physical activity, diet, and adult weight history and breast cancer. Our -goal is to recruit 648 incident cases of breast cancer and up 2 controls per case from the Breast Care Centers of the Palmetto Richland and Baptist Hospitals of Palmetto Health - /South Carolina Cancer Center (BCC) - services that see a total of about 35,000 mammography screens each year and in which about 700 women are diagnosed with breast cancer. After obtaining permission from the Human Use Review Office of the USAMRAA (on 30 November 2000) to begin recruitment we- finished the run-in process and began recruitment in the Baptist Hospital BCC in spring of 2001. To-date, we have recruited 990 subjects. Recruitment at Richland began in May 2002.
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 APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE |
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Annual rept. 17 Jul 2002-16 Jul 2003 |
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49 |
| Report Date: |
AUG 2003 |
| Contract Number: |
DAMD17-00-1-0327 |
| Report Number: |
A553914 |
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