Article: Women Most Fear Breast Cancer, but Heart Disease Is the Top Killer

Wider, Jennifer
Washington Informer
07-27-2005
Although heart disease is by far the number one killer of American women, a
strong majority of women say breast cancer is the disease they fear the
most, according to a new survey commissioned by the Society for Women's
Health Research in Washington, D.C.

"Women tend to fear breast cancer more than heart disease, which doesn't
make sense from a statistical standpoint because the incidence of heart
disease is much greater," Michael Remetz, M.D., an associate professor of
cardiology at Yale Medical Center in New Haven, Conn., said.

Almost a quarter of the women surveyed, 22 percent, said breast cancer is
the single disease they most fear. All cancer ...

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