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Molly is 27 years old and dying from breast cancer. She first noticed a lump in her breast when she was 21. Her girlfriend urged her to see a doctor and she did. Her doctor told her not to worry — that it was probably just a cyst.
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Gifford, S.M. (1986). The Meaning of Lumps: A Case Study of the Ambiguities of Risk. In: Janes, C.R., Stall, R., Gifford, S.M. (eds) Anthropology and Epidemiology. Culture, Illness, and Healing, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3723-9_8
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