[keepitreal]

Another reason for the decline in breast cancer deaths, however, is delayed diagnosis due to the fact that many women are not getting their yearly X-ray or mammogram.

What a nonsensical sentence. If you don't get screened you don't die? If you don't get diagnosed you don't die? Huh?

[DrC]

“What a nonsensical sentence.”

I think the reporter—who obviously wasn’t a science or math whiz—inappropriately extrapolated from the doctor’s statement about why the number of breast cancer cases has declined and assumed it would apply equally well to deaths. I assume the doctor’s statement (that bc cases have declined due to less screening) is correct, but the reporter’s inference is, as you say, nonsensical.