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Women in Congress speak out about expanding access to breast cancer exams
Fox News
Some Democrats and Republicans are pushing for legislation that would increase access to information on mammograms and their data in the fight against breast cancer.
"Women’s lives are stake," DeLauro told Fox News. "Breast cancer detected in the early stages has a 99% survival rate – that shows how important early detection is." Lacey Christ is a producer with "Fox News @ Night."
Nearly one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime, researchers have said. And medical professionals have agreed that early detection is essential to combating the disease that has killed roughly 43,780 people this year, according to the American Cancer Society.
"At the end of the day, unless we can prevent breast cancer, which is the second big killer, then you know that we will always be, I think, facing some deaths from breast cancer," Dr. Dorraya El-Ashry, chief scientific officer of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, told Fox News.