Breast Cancer:Life After Breast Cancer

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Breast Cancer

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  6. What You May Be Feeling
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  8. Drugs and Side Effects
  9. Your Body Image
  10. Metastatic Breast Cancer
  11. Life After Breast Cancer
  12. Survivor Stories

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How Breast Cancer Taught Me Not to Worry About Recurrence

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"You really do come to a complete understanding about the things you can control" (:53)
Betsy's breast cancer experience was so unpredictable that it forced her to let go and stop worrying.

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Betsy says the difficulties and surprises of breast cancer clarified once and for all the limitations of her control: "You do the best you can and you find the best doctors you can and then you move on."