Feature: Store clinics encourage women to get mammograms

PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - For years, Patricia Page had avoided having a
mammogram, scared of sitting in a sterile doctor's office waiting for a
test she thought would be painful. "I've heard so many horror stories," the
42-year-old Page said. Then one day a newspaper advertisement changed her
mind. It described a mammogram clinic in Lazarus, a sprawling new
department store on a busy block in downtown Pittsburgh. So Page and her
mother, Anna Ruth Opferman, decided to make a day of it. They shopped for
blouses, sweaters and Christmas decorations and they got their mammograms,
all in one store. See full story
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