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Well: A Grim Breast Cancer Milestone for Black Women
For the first time the incidence of breast cancer among black women is equal to that of white women, the American Cancer Society reports.
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Genetic Variant May Shield Latinas From Breast Cancer
A new study’s findings may explain why Hispanic women have lower rates of breast cancer than other Americans.
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Well: The Breast Cancer Racial Gap
The latest analysis shows that the chance of surviving breast cancer is much greater for white women than for blacks, and the divide is widening.
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When Men Get Breast Cancer
A provocative new series by the New York-based fashion photographer David Jay features the faces, and scars, of men with breast cancer.
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Well: When Men Get Breast Cancer
A provocative new series by the New York-based fashion photographer David Jay features the faces, and scars, of men with breast cancer.
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A Fresh Case for Breast Self-Exams
A Canadian study that produced negative results for mammography may give renewed momentum to clinical and self-exams.
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Faces of Breast Cancer: A Global Community
Whether you have breast cancer, love someone with breast cancer or worry about breast cancer, you are part of a global community of people whose lives have been touched by the disease. Well is asking readers to share their experiences as part of its “Picture Your Life” project.
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Well: Faces of Breast Cancer: A Global Community
Whether you have breast cancer, love someone with breast cancer or worry about breast cancer, you are part of a global community of people whose lives have been touched by the disease. Well is asking readers to share their experiences as part of its “Picture Your Life” project.
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Well: How Walking May Lower Breast Cancer Risk
Physical activity, and in particular walking, can substantially reduce a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer, encouraging new science shows, in part, it seems, by changing how her body deals with estrogen.
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