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• TITLE: Comparative study of breast cancer in Mexican and Mexican-American women

  AUTHORS: María Elena Martínez, Luis Enrique Gutiérrez-Millan, Melissa Bondy, Adrian Daneri-Navarro, María Mercedes Meza-Montenegro, Ivan Anduro-Corona, Ma Isabel Aramburo-Rubio, Luz María Adriana Balderas-Peña, José Adelfo Barragan-Ruiz, Abenaa Brewster, Graciela Caire-Juvera, Juan Manuel Castro-Cervantes, Mario Alberto Chávez Zamudio, Giovanna Cruz, Alicia Del Toro-Arreola, Mary E. Edgerton, María Rosa Flores-Marquez, Ramon Antonio Franco-Topete, Helga Garcia, Susan Andrea Gutierrez-Rubio, Karin Hahn, Luz Margarita Jimenez-Perez, Ian K. Komenaka, Zoila Arelí López Bujanda, Dihui Lu, Gilberto Morgan-Villela, James L. Murray, Jesse N. Nodora, Antonio Oceguera-Villanueva, Miguel Angel Ortiz Martínez, Laura Pérez Michel, Antonio Quintero-Ramos, Aysegul Sahin, Jeong Yun Shim, Maureen Stewart, Gonzalo Vazquez-Camacho, Betsy Wertheim, Rachel Zenuk, Patricia Thompson

  KEYWORDS: Binational Study; Breast Cancer; Hispanics; Mexico; United States

  JOURNAL NAME: Health, Vol.2 No.9, September 29, 2010

  ABSTRACT: Breast cancer is the number one cause of can- cer deaths among Hispanic women in the United States, and in Mexico, it recently became the primary cause of cancer deaths. This malign- nancy represents a poorly understood and un- derstudied disease in Hispanic women. The ELLA Binational Breast Cancer Study was es- tablished in 2006 as a multi-center study to as- sess patterns of breast tumor markers, clinical characteristics, and their risk factors in women of Mexican descent. We describe the design and implementation of the ELLA Study and provide a risk factor comparison between women in the U.S. and those in Mexico based on a sample of 765 patients (364 in the U.S. and 401 in Mexico). Compared to women in Mexico, U.S. women had significantly (p