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Old 06-23-2011, 09:27 PM   #1
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Texas gov. signs breast density law

http://www.dotmed.com/news/story/16361/

Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed into law last week a bill that requires breast density risks to be spelled out in reports mailed to women after their mammogram.

Texas Act HB 2102, known as "Henda's Law," is named after Henda Salmeron, a Dallas woman diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer in 2009, after a mammogram failed to find the cancer because of the density of her breast tissue, according to patient advocates. .....................................
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