Studies from University of Washington reveal new findings on breast cancer.

"Of the 411,000 breast cancer deaths around the world in 2002, 221,000 (54%) occurred in low- and middle-income countries (LMCs). Guidelines for breast health care (early detection, diagnosis, and treatment) that were developed in high-resource countries cannot be directly applied in LMCs, because these guidelines do not consider real world resource constraints, nor do they prioritize which resources are most critically needed in specific countries for care to be most effectively provided," investigators in the United States report (see also Breast Cancer).

"Established in 2002, the Breast Health Global Initiative (BHGI) created an international health alliance to …