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Article: Agony of the feared `C' word; The revolution in breast cancer care coupled with major research breakthroughs and better detection over the past two decades means a diagnosis of the disease is no longer the end of the road for the majority of women. But breast cancer remains one of the most terrifying diseases to affect women. Health Correspondent MADELEINE BRINDLEY examines women's perceptions of breast cancer.(Features)
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- Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- December 12, 2002
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Byline: MADELEINE BRINDLEY
``I COULDN'T speak when I was told I had breast cancer. I was so shocked, very angry - I really lost it.
``Why? What did I do wrong? Why was my life being ruined like this, why was everything so unfair?
``I was completely devastated.'' Like most women in Wales today Angela Chamberlain was acutely aware of breast cancer - her grandmother had suffered from the disease and every October the shops, the media and the world seemed to be full of breast cancer-related articles and products.
She knew the basic facts but ...