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Article: Federal aid needed: Legislation offers new hope to poor women diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer.
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- August 19, 1999
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WASHINGTON _ The National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program approved by Congress in 1990 was intended to be a tool in the fight against cancer. Unfortunately, for too many poor women it has turned out to be a woefully incomplete tool.
The bill created a screening program that works _ low-income women get mammograms and sometimes find that they have cancer. When the diagnosis is bad news, however, far too many women find that they have no funds for treatment and many others discover there is a distressing shortage of treatment facilities.
In essence, it says to women diagnosed with cancer through the screening program: ``Thanks for coming ...