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Article: Campaign focuses on eradicating fears, social stigmas associated with breast cancer.
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- Jordan Times (Amman, Jordan)
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
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Byline: Grace Peacock
Oct. 1--AMMAN -- Free clinical breast exams and discounted mammograms will be conducted during October at the King Hussein Cancer Centre (KHCC) and other healthcare facilities to help eradicate the fears and social stigmas associated with breast cancer and to encourage early testing among women. Some 75 to 80 per cent of Jordanian women with breast cancer discover their disease in the late stages. KHCC doctors and administrators at the King Hussein Cancer Foundation are hoping to change this disturbing trend, so women who do have breast cancer may have a better chance of beating the disease. "In the United States only 20 per cent of ...
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