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Poor countries see troubling rise in breast cancer

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nurses were training women in rural Mexico to examine their breasts for cancer when one raised her hand to object. If she lost her breast, Harvard public health specialist Felicia Knaul recalls the woman saying, "My man would leave me" — and with him, the family's income.

International cancer specialists meet this week to plan an assault on a troubling increase of breast...

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