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Heart disease kills more women annually than all cancers combined
Published in Women's Health Weekly, June 3rd, 2004
This is according to Norma Keller, MD, FACC, chief of clinical cardiology, and director, CCU and Telemetry, Bellevue Hospital and assistant professor of medicine at New York University School of Medicine in New York City.
"What has terrified women for years is breast and other cancers, so women have adequate awareness and acceptance of screening for cancer. Although cancer is important, it is hard to get them thinking about screening beyond that. It is...
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