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HEAL:BCC Word List
This 20-page mini-dictionary contains the definitions of medical words related to breast and cervical cancer. It includes guidance on how to pronounce words which is particularly useful to ESOL students and other non-native speakers of English.

Passport to Health
This 30-page booklet describes good health practices and the medical tests that can find cancer early when it is more easily treated. Self-exams for breast, testicular, and skin cancer are described and illustrated in detail.

What A Friend Can Do For You
In this photonovel, written and photographed by a group of ESOL students, a Latina helps her friend learn about breast exams and mammograms. Web-published in Flash, this audiovisual file may take a few minutes to download. [If you have an older browser and need to download the Flash Player Plugin, click here.]

My Life Story With Cancer
This is a true, illustrated story written by a GED student about her experience with cancer of the cervix and fallopian tubes. It includes teachers' notes, student glossary, and brief biography of the author. Also available in Spanish.

Breast Cancer As I Lived It
One women's account of her own how experience with breast cancer, including diagnosis and treatment. This is a true, illustrated story written by a GED student. A glossary is included at the end. Also available in Spanish.

 


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