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...Health Topic: Mammograms ? All about the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program...
...Breast Cancer Screening and Prevention ? A collection of resources from Lycos...
...Breast Cancer Site ? Founded to help offer free mammograms to underprivileged women nationwide...
...Most women wouldn't think twice before answering that question: years of popular opinion have left little doubt that a mammogram, uncomfortable and slightly embarrassing as it may be, is a lifesaving tool in the war against breast cancer. Research conducted in the 1970s and 80s found that mammograms reduce breast cancer deaths by 30 percent - a comforting statistic to the 30 million American women who undergo the procedure each year...
...Indeed, it will be years before these treatments are widely available. But even more important than the techniques themselves is the change in thinking they represent. Restricting radiation to a small part of the breast would have been unthinkable a decade ago. But now studies show that if the breast cancer recurs, nine out of 10 times it appears only at the site of the previous tumor. Moreover, the risk of cancer appearing elsewhere in the breast is about the same as the risk of occurrence in the other, healthy breast. "When you realize this, you realize that many women...