Screening cuts breast cancer deaths (Reuters)


<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051027/hl_nm/screening_breast_cancer_dc"><img src="http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/rids/20051027/i/r675752140.jpg?x=74&y=130&sig=HgGVFXu1XuxPSIwXXMufeg--" align="left" height="130" width="74" alt="Both screening mammography and new drug therapies have played a role in the decline in breast cancer deaths that has occurred over the last three decades, according to a new study, but the relative contributions of each still remain unclear. The findings, which appear in The New England Journal of Medicine, stem from seven research groups that developed their own statistical models of breast-cancer incidence and mortality and then applied the models to the same set of data. A nurse speaks with an unidentified patient in a hospital, May 7, 2003. REUTERS/Darren Staples" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Both screening mammography and
new drug therapies have played a role in the decline in breast
cancer deaths that has occurred over the last three decades,
according to a new study, but the relative contributions of
each still remain unclear.</p><br clear=all>