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No longer the sole habitat of sun worshippers, the islands welcome thousands of cyclists in early spring; April and May bring hikers to exclaim over wildflowers; and bird-watchers with binoculars and zoom lenses record rarities and migrants on their way north.
Averaged over the period 1995-99, age-adjusted invasive breast cancer rates per 100,000 white, non-Hispanic women were 199 in Marin County, 155 in the rest of the San Francisco Bay Area, and 144 in the United States as a whole [ 2 ] . Pronounced international and national geographic variation in breast cancer rates has been studied extensively [ 3 4 5 6 7 8 ] and has been attributed variously to population differences in the use of mammographic screening, diet, physical activity, body size, alcohol consumption, and socioeconomic and reproductive factors [ 5 6 7 9 10 ] . However, studies of breast cancer incidence among Asian migrants to North America have noted associations with age at migration, suggesting additional important influences of childhood or adolescent exposures or experiences [ 4 5 6 ] . With regard to Marin County, an earlier study by the Northern California Cancer Center (NCCC) using census data suggested that the high incidence was associated with the sociodemographic characteristics of the county and not with a geographically specific exposure [ 10 ] and that women living in Marin County have a higher prevalence of some recognized breast cancer risk factors, such as high education and income as well as low and late parity [ 10 11 ] .
Some modernization is occurring thanks to development funds from the European Union and the influence of returning migrants, but the countryside is still dominated by a traditional agricultural and peasant way of life.
Migrants are more likely to practice high-risk sexual behaviour [21].
The time lag indicates that only descendants of the migrants who were born and who grew up in the host country will develop a similar risk as the host population, and that possible environmental and behavioral causes act early in life or in utero [ 20].
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