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Thursday, July 5, 2007
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Black women who feel they've been victims of
racial discrimination are more likely than their peers to develop breast cancer, a large study suggests.
The study, which followed 59,000 African-American women for six years, found that those who reported more incidents of racial discrimination had a higher risk of breast cancer.
Read more: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_51776.html .
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