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Know Someone with Breast Cancer?
I must have been about eight years old. Wearing my black leotard, I had just finished doing cartwheels on the lawn and come into the house. I plopped down at the piano bench and knew immediately from the look on my mom’s face that something was wrong. “Your aunt has breast cancer,” she said. Back then they used words like “cobalt treatment” along with radiation and chemotherapy. And my beloved aunt waged a valiant fight. For some years her cancer went into remission, but eventually breast cancer led to bone cancer, and she died a painful death. We’ve come a long way since then in the treatment of breast cancer.…