However, I take offence at putting a price cap on saving the lives of tens of thousands of mothers, daughters, sisters, and friends with dense breast tissue who suffer unnecessarily and die needlessly from late stage breast cancer due to missed detection of mammographic screenings.

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However, at this stage there is no firm proof that depression actually causes cancer patients to die earlier than they otherwise would.

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The authors, from the University of California, San Francisco, noted that even when DCIS becomes an invasive cancer, it's treatable when found at an early stage: The odds that a 60-year old woman with a 7 millimeter breast tumor, would die from it in the next 10 years are less than 3%, half the risk she faces of dying from another cause during that time.

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