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Petra’s Story (Breast Cancer)

In August of 2013, breast cancer was detected in my right breast. It spread across the whole breast and I was advised to amputate it. As a precaution I had a double mastectomy in October and let them put in tissue expanders for reconstruction (these are temporary to stretch the …

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Jami’s Story (Breast Cancer)

At the age of 42 I began college, after 21 years of raising my sons. Two days after Christmas in 2010, following my first semester in college, I was diagnosed with invasive ductal carcinoma. I had found the lump a few years earlier, but the mammograms always came back negative, …

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