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Coping with cancer

Breast cancer needs to be dealt with in time, with proper treatment. Know what are the symptoms, and how you can reduce your risk.

My tryst with cancer began two decades ago in 1997 when it was by chance that I found the peasized lump in the inner quadrant of my left breast. My heart dropped.

There was turning back, running away from it; I felt it was the end of the world, it spelt devastation. Devastation or not, I had to go forward and get it examined. Earlier the better. Even if it's a false alarm. I was recommended a mammogram, followed by an FNAC, which is a fine needle aspiration, in which a sample of fluid from the lump

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