Recruiting an Army of Women to fight breast cancer

Friday, November 13, 2009 - 21:07 in Health & Medicine

The Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation and Avon Foundation for Women online effort gathers volunteers for studies. Beverly Howey and her identical twin sister, Karen Duncan-Sherman, each found a breast lump in 2007. Howey's was cancer. Duncan-Sherman's was benign. The two women, now 45, couldn't have more similar genetics, and they live in the same place, Wall, N.J. Why did one develop cancer...

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