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Can A Women Get Breast Cancer At Age 16?
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It has long puzzled researchers why African-American women are more likely to die from breast cancer than white women, even though white women have a higher incidence of the disease. Now, a new hypothesis that will be published in an upcoming issue of the International Journal of Surgery suggests that the high mortality rate among black women may be because more black women than white women get breast cancer before menopause, when their surgery to remove their tumor may have a higher risk of...
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