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Mammograms reduce breast cancer cases?

May 7, 2007 – 8:11 am

Researchers have earlier claimed that the recent decline in the number of breast cancer cases is due to the reduced use of hormone replacement therapy. But as always, not all claims are accepted by all researchers. Some researchers did their own analyses and made another claim that mammography screening is at least […]

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Breast Cancer Rates Dropped Even Before Hormone Results

May 6, 2007 – 4:39 pm

New research by American Cancer Society scientists supports a recent report that links a drop in breast cancer rates between 2002 and 2003 to a simultaneous decline in the use of hormone therapy. But the new work also shows that breast cancer rates were going down even before 2002 — at the same time that […]

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Cancer crisis: Ireland’s new cases twice EU average

February 8, 2007 – 4:04 pm

THE number of new cancer cases in Ireland is up to double the European average for some of the most common forms of the disease.
Figures just published show the number of new diagnoses of prostate cancer in Irish men was twice the European average last year, while the number of new lung cancer cases in […]

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