The surgeon found Sarah Burke in the hospital waiting room, her husband and two children by her side, and delivered the kind of news that breaks a life in two.
She had breast cancer.
Then came the second blow: It had already begun to spread, and the cancer could be deadly.
To add to the agony, just six months earlier, Sarah had undergone a routine mammogram – the gold-standard screening test offered to millions of women to pick up breast cancer at the earliest stages when it’s far easier to treat.
The test had shown nothing.
Now, here she was, being told she had an
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