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/ 15 October 2007

Keep abreast, do the test

The state of the South African breast is not good. Mammography is not generally available to the poor and breast cancer has become the second-biggest killer of black women. There will be about 1,25-million new cases of breast cancer diagnosed this year in the world. The life-time risk for getting breast cancer is now between one in 10 and one in seven, writes Paul Sneider.