51.   It started in a few small towns where the breast cancer rate seemed suspiciously high.

52.   Italy was one of the first countries to complain officially to NATO about abnormal cancer rates among military troops who served in Bosnia.

53.   Lack of equal access to health care has long been suspected as a contributing factor to high cancer rates among African American men and women.

54.   Jurors have heard testimony from Dr. James Dahlgren, an environmental toxicologist hired by the plaintiffs to examine local cancer rates.

55.   Lung cancer rates and death from lung cancer, though declining for men, are rising among women.

56.   Medical data indicates a growing disparity between cancer treatment rates for blacks and whites, Brawley said.

57.   Most importantly, they do not know why the cancer rates change from one place to another.

58.   Nevertheless, as scientists experiment with tea and its components and compare cancer rates in different populations, they continue to be intrigued.

59.   Noboru Noguchi, right, who with two friends has studied his neighborhood near Tokyo, found cancer rates highest near the local incinerator, seen in background.

60.   Of those, lung, prostate and colon-rectum cancer rates and deaths declined.