Rates of breast cancer in Japan, Singapore and South Korea are now three times what they were forty years ago.

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(Music) Those were comments from people who took part in the Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk held in Washington,D.C.,last month.

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Myriad Genetics received patents for methods to identify women with genes that create a high risk of breast cancer.

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But other doctors say they worry that the changes will reduce testing and lead to more women dying from breast cancer.

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People walked thirty-two kilometers a day for three days to increase public awareness and raise money to fight breast cancer.

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For example, the rate of breast cancer in Japan, Singapore and Korea is now 3 times what it was 40 years ago.

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But breast cancer expert Susan Love says the new guidelines are similar to those of most other countries.

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Yet new guidelines last week for breast cancer testing in the United States created a storm of debate.

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For example,natural chemicals from black pepper and the Indian spice turmeric might help to prevent breast cancer.

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The researchers combined the two compounds, and placed the mixture on breast cancer cells in a laboratory.

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Miz Mankiller also had a muscle disease called myasthenia gravis and fought breast cancer and lymphoma.

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The Women's Basketball Coaches Association gave permission for teams to wear the color pink to honor Coach Yow's work in educating people about breast cancer.

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On Monday,an influential group of medical experts released new guidelines on testing for breast cancer.

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Breast Cancer 3-Day Walks are held in fifteen cities across the country each year.

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Fifteen percent of the money goes to the National Philanthropic Trust Breast Cancer Fund.

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Results of the study were reported in the journal Breast Cancer Research and Treatment.

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The same is true of women with breast cancer and patients with liver problems.

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In women, it resulted from fewer cases of breast cancer and colorectal cancer.

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"And people who have breast cancer, they have to do it every single day, the chemotherapy treatment, all the things they have to prepare themselves to do.

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It says evidence suggests that doing so does not reduce breast cancer deaths.

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The band included his wife,Linda, who died of breast cancer in nineteen ninety-eight.

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And I think it pushes them to that point where getting rid of breast cancer will help those cancer patients go "I don't have to do this anymore."

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