'The Diagnosis I Told My Family Saved Their Lives'
In late 1974, I sat in our wood-paneled family room, watching the news as Betty Ford revealed to the world that she'd had breast cancer and a mastectomy. I called out to my mother in the kitchen, "Mom! What's a mastectomy?" My mother had a long history of being unable to speak of female body…
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