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Article: Risk For Breast Cancer In Black Women Triples
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- New Pittsburgh Courier
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- September 7, 1996
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Risk For Breast Cancer In Black Women Triples.
It's an affliction every woman thinks about at some time, African-American women in particular.
But according to a well-known expert on breast cancer surgery, it's a malady that can be controlled - and avoided.
Dr. Edwin T. Johnson, a semiretired surgeon from Montgomery, Ala., was in Chicago for the national Medical Association Convention recently and discussed breast cancer in relation to African-American women and the importance of mammograms.
Saying that breast cancer is the number one cancer type in African-American women, he also noted that one in eight African-American women is at risk of getting it, at a younger age than white women.
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