"And people who have breast cancer, they have to do it every single day, the chemotherapy treatment, all the things they have to prepare themselves to do.

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Further complicating the landscape is the realization in the past decade that, rather than being a single disease, breast cancer is at least five distinct diseases, with (to some extent at least) different risk factors, pathology, prognosis, and treatment.

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These philosophies are opposites, hard to accommodate in the breast of a single political movement.

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"The clear message is that breast cancer is not a single, or a simple, story, " Friese said.

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