Medication use among women with breast cancer in the Netherlands : Pharmacoepidemiological studies based on data from the Eindhoven Cancer Registry-PHARMO linkage

In the Netherlands, breast cancer is the most frequent (30%) of all cancers in women. In 2008, around 13,000 women were newly diagnosed with the disease. Worldwide, breast cancer accounted for almost 1.4 million new cancer patients in 20082. Incidence rates of breast cancer have been increasing in the Netherlands since 1960. This increase can be explained by several factors: the increased detection of (early) breast cancer due to the introduction and increased use of mammography and cytology since the 1980s, the implementation of the mass breast cancer screening program between 1991 and 1996,... Mehr ...