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MICHEL MARTIN
NPR Tell Me More
10-24-2007
Experts Breakdown Breast Cancer Myths

Host: MICHEL MARTIN
Time 09:00-10:00 AM

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MICHEL MARTIN, host:

I'm Michel Martin. This is TELL ME MORE from NPR News.

We'll turn to Africa in just a few minutes. NPR's Charlayne Hunter-Gault accompanies Graca Machel on a mission to Darfur. Machel is the wife of Nelson Mandela. She's one of the Elders, and she's calling attention to the needs of traumatized women of the region.

But first, to health care here in the U.S. Women here know they face a threat from breast cancer, but much of what they think ...

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