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As Breast Cancer Awareness Month gets under way in the United States, a new study shows that awareness about breast cancer is plentiful – and often wrong. What's really needed, concludes the National Breast Cancer Coalition, is education. Indeed. As one example of misinformation revealed by the survey, people tend to believe family history is the main influence over who develops breast cancer and who doesn't. Actually, while that's a factor, it's a somewhat minor one. More accurate understanding of that and other breast cancer basics would make it more likely that people will take appropriate steps to curb their chances of getting the disease that claims 40,000 lives a year in this country. And, probably of more importance, they'd be more apt to detect it early enough to get proper treatment/Spokesman-Review.

Question: Has your life been affected by breast cancer?

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