Breast Cancer:What You May Be Feeling

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  9. Your Body Image
  10. Metastatic Breast Cancer
  11. Life After Breast Cancer

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Hearing My Son at the Piano, I Vowed to Survive Cancer

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"I have to be there for him. Who else is going to sit by the piano and listen?" (:20)
Sitting with her son while he played the piano one day, Susanne, 45, realized she had to beat breast cancer.

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Susanne's determination to beat breast cancer got an extra kick one day after her diagnosis as she sat with her son while he played the piano. No one else could quite fill this role, she realized—being patient and just listening.

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