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...months ago, Liu Lichun didn't know her breast could contain cancer. No one had taught the 40-year-old Chinese woman from Inner Mongolia what the disease was. She'd never heard of a mammogram or mastectomy. It had thus never occurred to her that she would lose her left breast to the mysterious illness nor that such a loss would probably save her life...
...lump that transformed Liu's world was not much larger than a marble. A company physician found it in June during the routine checkup that her employer, a Swiss firm in Shanghai, encouraged its sales staff to undergo each year. Once a biopsy proved the tumor was malignant, Liu believed that the diagnosis was a death sentence. "I'd never heard of anyone in China with cancer who didn't die," she says...
...Five years ago, Liu might well have been among them. Breast cancer is the most lethal form of cancer for women in the world. An estimated 1 million cases will be identified this year, and about 500,000 new and existing patients will die from the disease. In the U.S., breast cancer will be diagnosed in 1 in 8 women...
...with reporting by Ling Woo Liu / Hong Kong
...allowing Beijing to host the games, you will help the development of human rights," Liu Jingmin, vice president of the Beijing Olympic-bid committee, told reporters in April 2001. Other officials have made similar promises. Liu even expanded his to include references to greater democracy and media freedom. Some optimistic observers abroad thought the government would be so careful to show its best side to the world in the run-up to the Games that it would ease its authoritarian habits. The Olympics could then be imagined as a journey to a destination where human rights, democracy and free media...