October is breast cancer awareness month. In my family, we're very aware. My sister had a mastectomy on Tuesday.

One of my close friends, who had a double mastectomy last winter, told me she'd recently been with a group of women in Washington and none of them had had a mammogram in the last year. Why not? They were busy, they forgot, they had one the year before, they didn't want to think about it. All but one was over 40. Then again, my friend had been religious about her annual check ...

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