The One Decision That Changed My Cancer Care
Iraq War veteran Laura Pearson was low risk by every measure when she felt a breast lump her mammogram had missed. On this episode of Kicking Cancer's Ass, she tells Joelle Kaufman how she pushed past a doctor's reassurance to get the bilateral diagnostic mammogram and biopsy that found her breast cancer, and how she traced it to the toxic burn pits she was exposed to during her deployment in Iraq, an exposure now recognized under the PACT Act.
Laura and Joelle talk about self-advocacy when your risk scores say you're fine, the higher cancer risk facing female veterans of Iraq and…
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