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DATE: SATURDAY, February 2, 1991                   TAG: 9102020326
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

BREAST CANCER DEATHS DECLINING, STUDY SAYS

The incidence of invasive breast cancer continues to increase, but deaths from the disease are declining, a new study says.

A team led by Theodore Holford of the Yale University School of Medicine found a downward trend in breast-cancer mortality when numbers of patients and deaths are grouped by years in which women were born. The usual technique is to look at years in which they were diagnosed or age at death.

However, the National Cancer Institute says that since 1973, deaths have remained steady at 27 women per 100,000 per year in the United States.

- Associated Press 


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