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To the Editor: In their Special Article, provocatively entitled "Cancer Undefeated," Bailar and Gornik (May 29 issue)¹ acknowledge the substantial changes in mortality due to cancer during the past 20 years in men and women under the age of 55 years. The authors note that for this age group, there has been a 25 percent decrease in all cancer-related deaths, a 23 percent reduction in deaths from breast cancer, and a slight but definite decline in mortality from lung cancer; for persons of all ages, there has been approximately a 15 percent drop in deaths from colorectal cancer. Bailar and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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