Breast Cancer

Clintons Unveil Measures To Combat Cancer

Published in Cancer Weekly, November 10th, 1997

President Bill Clinton, in a rare joint radio address with his wife Hillary on October 25, 1997, unveiled a stepped-up national education campaign to ensure more women get regular mammograms to detect breast cancer.

The President and First Lady also announced new U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations to set higher standards for breast cancer screening.

The public awareness campaign by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) will encourage more older women to receive regular mammograms to allow early detection and treatment of breast cancer, said Clinton, whose mother, Virginia Kelley, died of breast cancer in 1995.

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Source: Cancer Weekly (1997-11-10)

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