A former Los Angeles Times staff writer, Laurie Becklund, battled breast cancer since 1996. Earlier in 2015 she knew her time was limited, and as she greeted her last few months, she wrote an opinion piece “As I Lay Dying” about her story. Becklund died Feb. 8 of that [...]
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Breast Cancer Awareness Month: We Are Aware That No Progress Has Been Made
For any woman who is born today, the chance of developing breast cancer during her lifetime is 1 in 8 (in the 1970s it was 1 in 10). In the beginning of 2012, there were 2.9 million U.S. women and thousands of men with a history of breast cancer. Breast [...]
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