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The relationship of estrogen exposure to subsequent breast cancer risk has been the subject of much debate and investigation [ 4 ] . The debate is all the more significant because of estrogen's possible role in the prevention of coronary heart disease mortality, hip fracture and osteoporosis [ 5 ] . Three studies were greeted with great enthusiasm because they added a new perspective to the debate, correlating BMD with breast cancer risk.
S. maltophilia is an important pathogen in nosocomial infections of immunocompromised patients suffering from cancer, cystic fibrosis, drug addition, AIDS and in patients with organ transplants and on dialysis [ 30 31 32 ] . This organism is inherently resistant to most antibiotics due to its low outer membrane permeability [ 33 ] and to β-lactam containing antibiotics due to the production of a chromosomally expressed group 2e β-lactamase (L2) and a group 3c β-lactamase (L1) [ 34 35 ] . L1 has been cloned, over-expressed, and partially characterized by kinetic and crystallographic studies [ 36 37 ] . The enzyme exists as a homotetramer of ca. 118 kDa in solution and in the crystalline state.
To determine if the upper bound is reasonable, we estimated its value using data from screened subjects in randomized trials of colorectal cancer screening [ 12 13 ] , breast cancer screening [ 14 ] , and lung cancer screening [ 15 16 ] . We then compared this estimate to a modified PSE estimate using data from all subjects, so that estimates of age-specific cancer detection in the absence of screening and cancer mortality in the absence of screening are based on data from randomized controls and refusers.
Calcium ingestion has also been associated with increased risk of prostate cancer [ 10 11 ] . The only study to look at BMD and prostate cancer risk was a case/control design.
After all, researchers into cancer, heart disease, virology, and bacteriology would look quite foolish were they to adopt the high moral ground by damning the causes of disease as sinful or bad.
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