Ready for some light reading? Looking for conversational icebreakers for the waiting room? Want to be ready when your colleagues, who think you now know EVERYTHING about breast cancer, ask you a question? Take a look at these 25 fast facts. But don’t worry—there’s no quiz afterwards. You’ve already passed the cancer course.
1. Surveys show that women’s #1 health fear is breast cancer.
2. On January 1, 2005, the latest date for which figures are available, there were approximately...
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