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Resident urges early breast-cancer screening, recounts personal diagnosis and updates grandchild
Summary
During the meeting's public-comment period, a resident urged women with family histories of breast cancer to seek early screening, described his own 2015 cancer diagnosis and treatment, and said his grandchild Theo, age 2, is scheduled for an eyelid operation this week.
A resident (public commenter) used a public-comment turn to urge people with family histories of breast cancer to begin screening earlier than standard benchmarks and to advocate strongly for themselves during medical evaluations. "If it's in your family, start your screening very early," the resident said.
The commenter recounted family losses to the disease, saying his mother "died at a very young age because of…
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