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Bracing for Change

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Even in a period of change, I still look at my dear husband frozen in time due to this disease.

Pneumonitis, a lung inflammation, often appears months after the cancer treatment that sparked it.

I decided to go ahead with my scheduled breast reduction. I'd wait for the genetic testing results, from two weeks to two months. I decided that, for me, breast reduction would still be my choice, even if I had genes that imposed a 50 percent to 80 percent increase in the likelihood of breast cancer. Those of you who read my last post have been waiting with me. I wanted to pose a real-time, real-life conundrum.

Scoping Out Colon Cancer

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Colorectal cancer is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States when men and women are considered separately, and the second leading cause when both sexes are combined.