Every 12 minutes a woman in America dies of breast cancer. This year alone 211,000 women will be diagnosed and 43,300 will die (National). It is a continuous disease with no exact cause, and prevention is stressed with early detection. Since its early years of detection, breast cancer awareness has been drastically changing. The fight for a cure is a never-ending challenge that will one day save the lives of many women and men. Cases of breast cancer …showed first 75 words of 2662 total…

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