For more than 20 years a Tampa Heights resident has been making wigs for women undergoing chemotherapy. Now those women are giving back, after Christine Heinen’s home and business caught fire over the weekend. Heinen continues to dig through the damage, trying to determine what may be salvageable following the electrical fire. “I still haven’t…
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Ex-cancer surgeon reveals how she coped with chemo after own diagnosis
LIZ O’RIORDAN: In 2015, aged 40, I was diagnosed with breast cancer and had to undergo chemo myself. And I realised, even as a doctor, I’d had no idea what my patients had been going through. As a breast cancer surgeon, I would speak to my patients about chemotherapy, to tell them that it’s a given…