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DATE: THURSDAY, October 7, 1993                   TAG: 9310070186
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: CHICAGO                                LENGTH: Short

RESEARCHERS ADMIT GOOF IN CANCER STUDY

Researchers who reported in July that family history appeared to play a slightly smaller role in breast cancer than previously believed backed off Wednesday, saying they had erred.

The researchers had said heredity appears to account for only one in 40 cases of breast cancer, or 2.5 percent of the total.

On Wednesday, the team corrected that to 6 percent, or about one in 16 cases. That is more in line with other findings.

- Associated Press 


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