Breast cancer diagnoses took sudden drop in '03
Halt in hormone use may have played role
For the first time in decades, the number of women diagnosed with breast cancer fell dramatically in 2003 -- perhaps because millions of older women stopped taking hormone replacement pills at about that time, researchers said. (Full article: 874 words)
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