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What are some of the common myths about breast cancer?

April 26, 2017breast cancer common myths

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What are some of the common myths about breast cancer?

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• That the small amount of radiation associated with mammography causes breast cancer. • That injury to the breast causes breast cancer. • That mammograms injure the breast when the machine presses the tissue and that this causes cancer. • That you can catch cancer from another person. • That getting breast cancer is an automatic death sentence. • That breast cancer is primarily a disease of younger women. These are myths and are not true.