October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
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October 1, 2012
By Sherie Wong
Ingleside Station
Everywhere you look everything is pink. Pink water bottles, pink t-shirts, pink ribbons. Merchants soliciting donations, walkathons, television advertisements, touting the importance of mammograms and early detection of this deadly disease.
Out of approximately 288,000 new cases of breast cancer diagnosed in 2011 in the United States, almost 40,000 of these women died. In women, lung cancer was the leading cause of death, closely followed by breast cancer.
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