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Mammogram advice accurate but not ‘right’
Doing the right thing and taking the time to protect yourself against breast cancer has moral weight that policy makers ignore at their peril.  Bioethicist Art Caplan weighs in on the mammogram debate. Full story
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Arthur Caplan

Director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania

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