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A celebrity's choice of treatment can have a powerful influence on the general public. American researchers found a 25% decrease in the number of women choosing breast conserving surgery as opposed to mastectomy after Nancy Reagan, wife of then president Ronald Reagan, made a similar decision in 1987.
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