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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Sarah Lumley

Many women aren't regularly checking themselves for signs of breast cancer, study shows

Nearly eight in 10 women aren’t regularly checking themselves for signs of breast cancer.

A study of 2,000 women revealed how many aren’t making the time to self-check for breast cancer symptoms once a month, with a third failing to check at all.

Simply forgetting emerged as a key reason for 35%, while others blamed it on a lack of confidence (17%) and a fear of what they might find (13%).

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