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South Carolina breast cancer program should be expanded to include more women.
2004 DEC 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- South Carolina's breast cancer death rate deserves immediate attention, and an early detection program for poor women should be expanded, the head of the state's health and environmental agency says.
Department of Health and Environmental Control Commissioner Earl Hunter said the state should expand a federally funded program called Best Chance Network, which limits participants to the uninsured below 200% of the poverty level and between 47 and 64 years old.
Hunter's comments came in a letter to state Senator Verne Smith, R-Greer, who wrote the commissioner after reading The Greenville News article about black women in upstate South Carolins dying of breast cancer at a much higher rate than blacks statewide and throughout the country.
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