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• Cancer survivor says ‘You have to keep going’
By Wayne Parham
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| Lou Jean Battle, of Warrenton, fought breast cancer and won. She is in remission. Photo by Wayne Parham. |
Lou Jean Battle, of Warrenton, battled breast cancer and won. She is a survivor who believes a cancer diagnosis should never get you down.
She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008. Now she is in remission, but still has a mammogram every year.
“I found a lump in my own breast,” she said. “I do a breast exam every day. That was something I was used to doing anyway.”
She had a mammogram, and at that point was told it was benign. But then she noticed something else going on.
“I noticed in that same area it was looking different and I went back for another mammogram. That’s when they did the biopsy and said it was cancer.”
She contacted her doctor, Kelly Carter, who suggested she have another mammogram. Within a day or two, Battle was referred to Dr. Karen Yeh, a cancer doctor, for a biopsy.
To read more on this story, see the Sun., Oct. 28, edition of The McDuffie Progress.
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