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Daughter Worries When Mother Abandons Breast Cancer Medication

Cancer presents many challenges to a family, but one of the strongest can come when a patient shuns a potential cure or known effective treatment for an unproven therapy. A woman using the pseudonym Wendy Grace (she asked that ABC News not use her real name) and her mother in Minnesota face such a situation now. Her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer five years ago, but was treated with successful surgery. While she began a regimen of tamoxifen to avoid recurrence, she stopped that after...Full Story
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