Survivors: Early detection saves lives

  • Press photo/Linda Mathias - Breast cancer survivors in Macon County are sewing heart shaped drainage tube pillows for current patients. From left: Rita McElroy, Lori Smith, Gwen Bradley-Stanfield.
    Press photo/Linda Mathias - Breast cancer survivors in Macon County are sewing heart shaped drainage tube pillows for current patients. From left: Rita McElroy, Lori Smith, Gwen Bradley-Stanfield.
One in every eight American women will be diagnosed with breast cancer at some point in their lives. Many of those women live in Macon County, of different ages and diverse backgrounds.  There’s one…

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