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I was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 24. I have had a mastectomy, chemotherapy, and will be on hormone therapy for five years.
Thinking about health care reform in the US, BRCA status, and the rest of my life.
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american amazon · I went to Oxford, and all I got was this lousy cancer.
