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73% More Breast Cancers Occur in Brightest Cities in US Than in its Darkest 2008

Feb 16th 2008
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2008Feb: More breast cancers occur in the brightest cities.

2008Feb: The findings of a research team suggest that 73% more breast cancers occur in the brightest cities in the US than in its darkest (US News and World Report, 2008).

Reference: US News and World Report. 2008. http://www.usnews.com/articles/science/environment/2008/05/15/endangered-destinations.html

Image Description: Las Vegas. Photo by Marcin Klapczynski, 2004. Image Location: Wikimedia Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Las_Vegas_by_Night.jpg Image Permission: Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation license, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.

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