Breast cancer is among the top 10 causes of death--more than 40,000 in 2007--in women in the U.S.

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Breast cancer is among the top 10 causes of death--more than 40,000 in 2007--in women in the U.S. As for African-American females, notes Sulma Mohammed, associate professor of cancer biology at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind., they "develop a particular kind of tumor, called ER-negative, at a young age," and these individuals generally have...