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Board of Health chair marks five years with cancer not detectable, urges early diagnosis
Summary
Tanae Franklin, chair of the board of health, described her August 2020 diagnosis of stage 2 triple‑negative breast cancer, five months of chemotherapy and said cancer is now not detectable; she used her experience to urge early screening and public‑health outreach.
Tanae Franklin, chair of the board of health, said she was diagnosed with breast cancer in August 2020 and, after five months of chemotherapy, that cancer is not detectable in her body today. Franklin framed her personal experience as a demonstration of why early diagnosis and public‑health outreach matter.
Franklin said she first noticed changes after increasing physical activity. "And from then, that's when I found my lump," she said, describing how she and her husband pulled over on Doctor D B Todd Boulevard to read biopsy results together. She said the diagnosis —…
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