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Feature Friday: Digging for a Cure

Related Topics: Breast cancer

Feature Friday highlights the tremendous personal stories our coaches and cadet-athletes have to share on a weekly basis. Each Friday, a new feature story will be prominently highlighted on GoArmyWestPoint.com. The features will include multi-media pieces, as well as written stories by media outlets and the Army West Point athletic communications staff.

One in eight. One in every eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. Every two minutes. That is how often a woman is diagnosed with the life altering disease every day.

There are many organizations and events that raise money to research the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women, but it is projected that over 246,660 women in the U.