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Cancer’s New Battleground: In Haiti, breast cancer presents stark choices

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Going on the offensive with breast cancer

Health & Medicine

A growing number of women are opting to have double mastectomies in order to combat a breast cancer. We’ll talk about why. Guests: Gisella Alvarez, charge nurse at Mercy Medical Center ? she chose to have a double mastectomy after being diagnosed with breast cancer; Dr. Kevin Hughes, surgical oncologist at Mass General Hospital

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