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BREAST CANCER - BEARING WITNESS - SLIDE SHOW
In South Africa - one in nine women suffers from breast cancer
according to the UN World Health Organization.
By Kristin Palitza
Cape Town, South Africa - August 2010 (IPS) - "I had a lump in my breast
for a few years that I ignored [mainly because] it didn’t hurt. It’s so easy to
try to deny illness," says Tracey Derrick. When she finally went to see a
doctor for a biopsy, she got a big shock. The result came back positive: breast
cancer.
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