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Article: Checking for breast cancer is best left to experts Being told to examine your breasts every month soon becomes burdensome and worrying
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 3, 2002
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It is no accident that of all the cancers, those affecting the
breast attract the most attention - something that is commensurate
with the public interest in the organ. Breast cancer attracts one
hundred times as much state research funding as prostate cancer,
although both diseases claim similar numbers of lives (10,000 a year
from prostate cancer and 12,000 from breast cancer). It is the
prostate's misfortune that it is neither visible nor voluptuous.
But while the extra funding has bought significant gains against
breast cancer, with a sharp fall in the death rate, there is a
downside in increased anxiety for the millions of women who will
never get the disease but fear they might.
The ...