
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 20, 1994                   TAG: 9404200096
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

DDT-CANCER LINK QUESTIONED

The largest study ever to test the link between DDT and breast cancer casts doubt on a widely held belief that the banned insecticide can cause the disease.

Nancy Krieger of the Kaiser Foundation Research Institute in Oakland, Calif., said analysis of 26-year-old blood samples from women who later developed breast cancer cannot support earlier findings that had connected DDT exposure to breast cancer.

``This study means that important questions have been raised about the validity of those earlier findings,'' Krieger said. ``We cannot show statistically that there is a definite positive association'' between DDT and the disease.

A report on the new study is to be published today in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

by CNB