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    Screening for Breast Cancer STATE YOUR PURPOSE: I want to inform more people how important early screening for breast cancer. Early screening can save lives. INTRODUCTION: Attention-getter: When breast cancer is detected early‚ the 5-year relative survival rate is 98 percent‚ but declines to 84 percent for regional disease and 23 percent when cancer has spread to other parts of the body. Audience motivation: Most doctors feel that early detection tests for breast cancer save thousands

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    Known for centuries as the "dread disease"‚ Breast Cancer‚ a formidable opponent of any woman alive today‚ was even more so in the nineteenth century. Women who were diagnose with the disease had very little chance of survival and were all too often subjected to excruciating and brutal breast augmentation surgeries‚ even when much of the time they were already terminal and the surgery made no difference at all. Robert Shadle and James S. Olson’s story about our ill fated heroin Nabby Smith recants

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    Breast Cancer [pic] Yakedia Patrick 04-29-13 4th Hour

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    Title: Breast Cancer Specific Purpose: To inform the audience of how simple steps can help them catch breast cancer in its earlier stages before it is too late. Central Idea/ Thesis: Through the help of mammograms‚ self-examinations‚ and funding you can find a way to either detect breast cancer in its earlier stages or possibly be able to prevent it all together. Introduction I. “Each year‚ about 192‚000 women and 1‚900 men in the United States are diagnosed with invasive breast cancer. And

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    What is the importance of Breast cancer awareness? Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide. Cancer often creates fear which comes out of ignorance and misconception. More than 30% of cancer cases could be prevented by modifying lifestyle or avoiding key risk factors. About 1/3rd of cancer cases could be reduced if cases are treated and detected at an early stage. Breast cancer awareness is an effort to raise awareness and reduce the stigma of breast cancer through education on symptoms and

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    died of breast cancer. It is said that Komen asked one thing of Brinker while laying on her deathbed‚ to “do something so other women would not suffer her fate”. Two years later Susan G Komen became a foundation for breast cancer. As all foundations are funded through money‚ Brinker had to raise public awareness and get contributions for the cause. The first event was a polo tournament that did not have a big outcome but the following year Betty Ford‚ former first lady and breast cancer survivor

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    shown that the number of cases of breast cancer amongst women has slightly decreased. However there are many women that are unaware on how they can protect themselves. It is for this reason I have decided to create this dramatic piece to show some of the causes and preventions of breast cancer can be controlled by the woman herself. This piece describes an evening at home‚ where a younger sibling educating the elder about her habits which can her to develop breast cancer‚ and that she can try to rectify

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    the main sources of media that depicts the way that African American women are represented. African American women are‚ continuously‚ depicted in the media in many different ways. These particular ways tend to encourage negative stereotypes about African American women. Not only does television promote negative stereotypes‚ but it also promotes racial stereotypes as well. African American women portrayals on television‚ not only affect black women as a whole‚ but it also affects the image as well

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    difficulties from white oppressors‚ African American women were taking action by contributing their help and skills in the United States. Women dealt with the separation from their families‚ working in the fields with their infant children and sexual exploitation from their masters. As the cruel years past for the African Americanwomen would find ways through creativity‚ abolition and community building to shape the way for America in years to come. Black slaveholding women served their masters and most

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    Heart Disease in African American Women Monique Boatner Tabor College Heart Disease in African American Women The target group of the population intervention is African American women ages twenty-five and thirty-four‚ lower to middle class‚ in Birmingham‚ AL. When performing the intervention in this population subset the measurable objectives are the increase of the women who check their blood pressure on a regular basis and can voice whether their blood pressure is normal or high

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