Women & living with breast cancer today.

From: National Women's Health Report | Date: October 1, 2005 | Copyright information

When Arlene Dobren's mother was diagnosed with breast cancer 30 years ago, the cancer had already spread to her liver. She died a year later at age 62. Conversely, when Ms. Dobren herself was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1995 during a routine mammogram, she underwent a breast-conserving lumpectomy followed by chemotherapy and radiation and remained cancer-free for nine years.

When the cancer recurred last year--picked up during a routine chest X-ray--doctors quickly e...

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