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Breast cancer awareness: "We need to listen to our bodies"

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It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month — and a Joburg woman is using her story to push for earlier, smarter screening.

HOT1027’s Tara Penny caught up with 47-year-old Marlene Pretorius, who’s lived with breast cancer in her family for nearly two decades.....
23 Oct English South Africa Entertainment News · Documentary

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