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Posted on: October 26th, 2005
Filed Under: [ Health ] [ Hispanic News ]
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“Ada Rodriguez is on a mission, and so far, more than 70 women are on the road to better health because of her efforts.
Rodriguez is a community coordinator for the Healthy Hispanic Project’s “Madres y Mujeres del Manana,” the “Mothers and Women of Tomorrow” program. Hispanic women are twice as likely to develop cervical and breast cancer as non-Hispanic women, and yet most do not receive information on screenings that can save their lives, according to Ann Hinsdale-Knisel, Michigan State University Extension educator. In fact, breast cancer is the most common cancer and leading cause of cancer death in Hispanic/Latina women, she said.”
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