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Article: Breast cancer: the increasing threat to young Black women.(Women's Health Section)
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- October 1, 2003
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IT can become a part of a woman's life when she's too young to drink or vote and certainly too young to run for president. And it can all start with an innocuous lump. Sometimes the lump is barely more than a mosquito bite, sometimes it's larger than a baseball, but its impact has life-threatening implications, whatever its size.
Credit union executive Rebecca McClure of Sacramento, Calif., found a lump in her breast at age 27, but she says she wasn't worried because she told herself, "I'm too young for breast cancer." She was wrong! She was diagnosed with the disease in 2000 and later had a mastectomy and reconstructive surgery. Because the disease was detected ...