
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, March 28, 1992                   TAG: 9203280210
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-7   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: DETROIT                                LENGTH: Short

HIGH LEVEL OF PCBS FOUND IN BREAST TUMORS

The widespread industrial toxins known as PCBs may play a key role in breast cancer in women, a researcher said Friday.

Dr. Frank Falck Jr. of the University of Michigan said his pilot study found higher than normal levels of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, in fat samples taken from women with breast tumors.

"When you look at PCBs, they're definitely potent cancer promoters. They have widely contaminated the food chain," he said.

The chemicals were widely used to insulate and cool electric transformers until the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency banned them in the 1970s.

- Associated Press

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