Cancer probe
A nation-wide investigate into a reported link between breast cancer and the pill is being launched in Britain. Medical researchers want to identify the 500 women aged under 35 who develop the disease in Britain each year and compare them with a control group of healthy women. They will then see if women taking various oral contraceptives stand a higher than normal risk of developing breast cancer. — London.
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Press, 9 November 1983, Page 29
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