“My life changed on a dime with a picture,” Ms. Merens said. “I had a triple negative, very aggressive form of breast cancer.” The Boca Raton resident got the news on Nov. 16, 2011, at Lynn Women’s Health and Wellness Institute, part of Baptist Health, where a nurse navigator told her she would be with her…
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He’s a felon who was homeless. He just won two prestigious national writing awards
Frank Kensaku Saragosa’s ‘Life. In Pieces’ won a PEN America literary award SAN DIEGO — Frank Kensaku Saragosa felt a bit uneasy as he walked past the tents that lined the sidewalk along downtown San Diego’s East Village. “I used to stay over there,” he said, pointing to an embankment off Commercial Street near Interstate 5….
Breast cancer survivor in Orange County shares story in hopes of empowering others
Philecia La’Bounty, now 35, said she was just 29-years-old when she discovered a lump in her breast and was denied a mammogram because of her young age. A local woman in remission from stage-four breast cancer says that when she first discovered a lump in her breast, at 29-years-old, she was denied a mammogram due…