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American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 119, No. 4: 503-509
Copyright © 1984 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

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BREAST CANCER SURVIVAL RATES AMONG SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS AND NON-SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS

TERRELL W. ZOLLINGER1,3, ROLAND L. PHILLIPS2 and JAN W. KUZMA2

1Indiana University, School of Public and Environmental Affairs Bloomington, IN 47405
2Loma Linda University, School of Health Loma Linda. CA

3Reprint requests to Dr. Zollinger.

Survival rates were compared among 282 Seventh-day Adventists and 1675 other white female cancer cases following diagnosis during the 30-year period, 1946 to 1976, at two California hospitals owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The Adventist women had a more favorable 5-year relative survival pattern than the other women (69.7% vs. 62.9%) as well as a higher probability of not dying of breast cancer. The differences, however, were no longer significant when stage at diagnosis was taken into account. it seems likely that the lower breast cancer death rates reported among Seventh-day Adventlst women as compared with the general population result in part from better survival patterns due to earlier diagnosis and treatment.

breast neoplasms; death rate; religion


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