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More Questions for Cancer Researchers

Apr 19, 2007

This article in the Wall Street Journal breaks down a report published in the New England Journal of Medicine showing that the rate of breast cancer is at its lowest rate in 20 years. The report, though, "raises more questions than it answers about why an estimated 16,000 fewer women in the U.S. have been diagnosed with the disease," the article says.

 

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