PATHWAYS TO PROGRESS: Giving thanks, getting checked - San Angelo Standard-Times

In "Heartsounds," a moving account about life-changing struggle against disease and death, author Martha Weinman Lear wrote, "Women agonize ... over cancer; we take as a personal threat the lump in every friend's breast."

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ABC4WT stands for Access to Breast Care for West Texas. ABC4WT is a program supported by the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas through the Laura W. Bush Institute for Women's Health at Angelo State University. Similar projects also are ongoing at other Laura W. Bush Institute locations in Amarillo and Lubbock.

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