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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...
...difficulties. Asian women tend to have denser breast tissue than other women, and many studies show dense tissue is up to five times as likely to develop malignancies. What's more, such tissue can conceal the disease since both tumors and healthy tissue may show up white on a mammogram. Asian women even draw the short straw when it comes to treatment. Doses of conventional chemotherapy are determined partly by a patient's height and weight, but mounting evidence suggests that certain ethnic groups absorb the chemicals differently. Researchers in Singapore have shown that Caucasian patients may require higher doses...
...reports that in Egypt, religious leaders now speak out in favor of breast-cancer awareness and screening, making it clear to husbands that their wives must be examined regularly - by male doctors if need be. In Hungary, where every woman from 45 to 65 now gets a free annual mammogram - with even travel costs covered - breast cancer has dropped from first place to third as a cause of death among women. In neighboring Romania, however, things aren't as hopeful, and a new organization called Common Destiny is working to increase awareness and testing. In China the country's anticancer...
...Money is a problem too. In Egypt, mammograms cost about $50, in many cases a month's income. Onyango, the Kenyan breast-cancer survivor, remembers that when her doctor told her she should have a mammogram, her first thought was, "How much will it cost?" The answer may be only $20 in Kenya, but for people who live on less than $1 a day, that could easily be out of reach...
...Percentage-point drop in women age 40 and older who reported having a mammogram in the previous two years; the percentage fell from 70% of women asked in 2000 to 66% of women asked...