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Article: Breast Cancer and African-American Women
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- The Philadelphia Tribune
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- June 27, 1997
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Philadelphia Tribune, The
06-27-1997
Breast Cancer and African-American Women
Imagine walking into your physician's office and she tells you that the lump you felt during a monthly breast self-examination needs further evaluation. The first thing you imagine is that you must have breast cancer. Immediate panic makes you wonder if this is a death sentence. Suddenly, you feel all alone as if you are the first woman in the world to hear these words from a doctor.
In 1997, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 11,000 African-American women will be diagnosed with breast cancer. Of this number, about 2,700 will lose their lives to this disease. In the United States, about one in every nine will be ...