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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.