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Breast Cancer
New Project Captures Underrepresented Voices of Young Breast Cancer Patients
September 27th, 2008
There are more than 250,000 women under the age of forty that are living with breast cancer and 11,000 will be diagnosed in the next year. Television star Christina Applegate's tumor was detected through magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which was ordered by her doctor, according to her publicist. That decision proved lifesaving because the cancer was caught early, when it is most likely to be treated and cured. While the highly sensitive MRI is excellent at detecting tumors in young women whose dense breast tissue often hides tumors on mammogram X-rays, it is also a very expensive procedure, and one that frequently detects false abnormalities that...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-09-27)
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