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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."