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Video: Women Unsatisfied With Body and Breasts, Less Likely to Comply With Screenings, Including Mammography
Date:9/23/2008

port that their biggest fear if diagnosed would be dying. Additionally, two-thirds of women (66%) say they are most concerned about the treatment itself or its side effects, including those who mentioned going through chemotherapy or surgery (35%), being sick or weak (19%) or losing a breast (12%).

For more information on the 2008 Breast Cancer Awareness Survey, to learn more about NWHRC's Learn.Love.Commit. campaign, or to request an interview with a breast cancer health professional, please visit http://www.healthywomen.org/newsroom.

The Learn. Love. Commit. campaign is supported by an educational grant from Eli Lilly, & Co.

Press Contact:

Marisa Rainsberger

mrainsberger@healthywomen.org

877-986-9472, x 108


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