Improved Numbers?

Washington Post, "U.S. Breast Cancer Rate Stabilizes", though experts are waiting for a few more years worth of data to definitively pronounce it a trend:

The new report did not examine why breast cancer incidence would have plateaued.

However, Edwards and others said it could be due to a combination of factors, including: the use of mammography appears to have peaked, the number of women delaying child-bearing may have stabilized and the use of hormones after menopause has plummeted.

Advocacy groups quoted in the story seem reluctant to accept the news. A certain amount of skepticism is good---perhaps they could direct their attention to high hormone use in the newly approved Plan B over the counter.

The improved numbers may be fleeting after all, they might want to hold on to those pink ribbons.

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