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Article: ADVISORY/National Breast Cancer Coalition Responds to Study on Breast Self-Exams.
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- October 1, 2002
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Business Editors & Health/Medical Writers
ADVISORY...for Wednesday (Oct. 2)
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 1, 2002
In response to today's release of a new study documenting that breast self-exams did not reduce the rate of breast cancer death among 260,000 women in China, Fran Visco, president of The National Breast Cancer Coalition (NBCC), made the following statement:
"The National Breast Cancer Coalition has long taken the position that there is no evidence that promoting and teaching breast self-exams saves lives. We now have evidence that it does not. We must focus our resources away from shower cards and self-exam videos and ...