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More Chinese women getting breast cancer

A growing number of Chinese women are suffering from breast cancer due to unhealthy diets, a poor environment and increased stress at work, experts have said. The latest figures from the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Preven ... ...full story at People's Daily

from People's Daily on Tue, Oct 30 2007

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