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When Antoinette Aboflan fled her West African homeland of Togo in fear for her life, she didn''t know if she would ever see her family again.

The United States may be the land of opportunity, but for immigrants and refugees, it can also be a land of language, cultural and financial hurdles.

 

A recent study looked at medical registries, and found 36 percent of women over 40 had either never had a mammogram or hadn''t had one in over two years.

Each day, 3,400 people in the United States are diagnosed with cancer and another 1,500 die from the disease. And while these numbers are disturbing, they also harbor a fundamental inequity: racial and ethnic minority groups form a larger percentage of these totals than their proportions in the general population.

With a message of "Stay Tough, Don''t Puff," two students at Hancock Place Middle School were recognized for a creative anti-smoking message from the Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine as part of an art contest for this November''s "Great American Smokeout."

A new study that enrolled nearly 50,000 women has revealed that digital mammography can detect breast cancer better than conventional film-based mammography in certain groups of women.

Fifty years ago, the number of women diagnosed with breast cancer was one in 20. Today that number is one in eight.

If you''ve been skimping on the sunscreen this summer, an O''Fallon, Missouri woman''s experience may have you running for shade the next time you''re outdoors.

In 1999, cancer experts said one in nine or 10 women would develop breast cancer during their lifetime. In 2005, that statistic is one in seven women who reach the age of 100.