Robert A. Smith

American Cancer Society

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Vice president of cancer screening at the American Cancer Society

Robert A. Smith on KCRW

Breast cancer kills 41,000 American women every year, but hundreds of thousands survive — largely because of early diagnosis. One big question is, how early?

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