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Breast Cancer
Studies that are unable to show hair fiber x-ray diffraction changes have flaws
April 22nd, 2003
Studies that are unable to show hair fiber x-ray diffraction changes in patients with breast cancer have critical flaws. "After a correlation between breast cancer and changes in the fiber x-ray diffraction of hair was first published, a number of groups reported their failure to reproduce this phenomenon," researchers in Australia report. "There is evidence that these failures resulted from either diffraction images of insufficient quality or analysis techniques unable to distinguish features resulting from the presence of breast cancer from those resulting from mechanical damage," wrote V.J. James and colleagues, Australian National University,...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2003-04-22)
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