Science on your side
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Scientific inventions and promising weapons against the disease of breast cancer are presented. Painless early detection of the disease, self-examination of the breast to detect cancerous growth with a palm-sized device, customized chemotherapy predicted by the doctor, vaccination for the women who have finished treatment for better survival, and quick treatment of radiations for rural women who cannot take six months to move to another area for treatment are discussed.
Publication Name: Self
Subject: Women's issues/gender studies
ISSN: 0149-0699
Year: 2005
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Don't pity me: How to react to a woman with cancer makes all the difference in how she feels
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A woman boxer, suffering from breast cancer narrates her feelings on people's reaction over her. She hates people pitying over her or sympathizing her, and states that being a loner she prefers to go solo to her lumpectomy and no one accompanies her for her chemotherapy.
Publication Name: Self
Subject: Women's issues/gender studies
ISSN: 0149-0699
Year: 2005
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Breast cancer: why where you live matters
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Many women suffering from breast cancer do not have access to the best treatment. The answers of efficient doctors to the myths and queries of these women are presented.
Publication Name: Self
Subject: Women's issues/gender studies
ISSN: 0149-0699
Year: 2003
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