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I lost my closest cousin to breast cancer. She was diagnosed in August of 1996 with metastatic breast cancer after feeling a lump a short time earlier and died 9 months later at the age of 38. I was so upset that I took a leave of absence from work and my medical education for several months to travel to all 50 states in an attempt to raise breast and overall cancer awareness and to try and increase government funding for cancer. I collected countless letters and took them with me to the Capitol and US Congress women and men and sent some of them to the White House including my letter (some excerpts from this letter are found at the end of this introduction).
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Moyad, M.A. (2016). Introduction. In: Integrative Medicine for Breast Cancer. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23422-9_1
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