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Laura Zigman Meets Her Breast Surgeon and Becomes a Bobble-Head Toy

With Breast Cancer Comics by Dash Shaw  I was still under the impression that I had a pre-cancerous non-cancerous type of cancer that wasn't really cancer when I met with the head surgeon at the Sagoff Breast Center at the Faulkner Hospital in Boston.  Dr. Margaret Duggan - a tall, fiercely intelligent, completely... Read moreChevron

Diagnosis: Misunderstanding

With Breast Cancer Comics by Dash Shaw   A few days before I turned 44, I was diagnosed with Stage 0 breast cancer. After a lifetime of mammograms, I had recently been "pro-active" (pushy) about getting a more definitive test since I was convinced it was only a matter of time until I got breast cancer just like my... Read moreChevron

A Year Later

Author Laura Zigman    Last year, about a week before I turned forty-four, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Normal people would find this news shocking but I didn’t. I’d always known, deep down, due to my strong family history of breast cancer and my genetic predisposition for pervasive generalized ambient... Read moreChevron

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