Which of the following students provides the most accurate information about breast cancer?
a. Heidi: About half of US women who develop breast cancer will eventually die from it..
b. Marie-France: Despite the impressive medical progress, breast cancer is more dangerous for women than any other illness..
c. Ernesto: Because of new breakthroughs in surgical techniques, breast cancer is now responsible for fewer than 10,000 deaths in North American women each year..
d. George: Breast cancer seems to receive more attention than other deadly diseases because female breasts are important in our culture..
Question 2Which of the following students provides the most accurate information about breast cancer?
a. Derrick: The public tends to focus on breast cancer, rather than on diseases that are actually more deadly to women..
b. Hakim: Compared to US women, Canadian women have a much greater probability of dying from breast cancer..
c. Adrienne: Women who are menstruating are especially likely to detect breast cancer if they examine their breasts on the first day of their menstrual cycle..
d. Rachel: The new research shows that women between the ages of 30 and 45 should have a yearly mammogram..
Question 3The data on cardiovascular disease show that
a. women usually develop heart disease earlier than men do.
b. White women are more likely than Black women to die of heart disease.
c. women are more likely than men to have bypass surgery for heart disease.
d. women who are having a heart attack often have different symptoms than men do.
Question 4The discussion of cardiovascular disease pointed out that
a. health professionals may fail to recognize heart attacks in women because the symptoms reported do not always fit the classic male symptoms.
b. men experience cardiovascular disease about five years later than women do.
c. low-dose aspirin clearly reduces the likelihood of heart attacks in both men and women.
d. cardiovascular disease is the most common cause of death for men, whereas breast cancer is the most common cause of death for women.
Question 5Which of the following statements about women's health is correct?
a. More women die of cardiovascular disease than of all forms of cancer combined.
b. More women die of breast cancer than of any other kind of cancer.
c. More women die of breast cancer than of heart disease.
d. The most common cause of death in men is cardiovascular disease, whereas the most common cause of death in women is now lung cancer.
Question 6Suppose that a young female patient in the United States suffers from complications from female genital mutilation, performed before she emigrated. People from this patient's culture are likely to believe that
a. the procedure makes the genitals cleaner and reduces sexual activity outside of marriage.
b. the procedure increases male sexual pleasure by altering the location of the woman's vagina.
c. the operation is not especially painful.
d. modern surgical instruments have reduced the danger of the procedure.
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