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Breast cancer hypothesis 1978: Shift of the conceptual framework
1Retired Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University.
Abstract:
One hundred medical hypotheses from the 1970s were reviewed, in a book in London, UK, in order to reassess the predictive values and practical realizations of hypotheses suggested more than 30 years ago. The hypothesis-testing study of breast cancer of 1978, corroborating evidence of a significant association between barrier contraception (condom use) and breast cancer in American married women was also included (No. 44). As a reply, presented is the evolving line of the hypothesis into evidence of the potential of primary prevention of the disease, and a Table of the envisioned shift of the conceptual framework (paradigm) of breast cancer.
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