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How breast cancer changes a life

ISLAND LAKE – Like most brides-to-be one month before their big day, Maureen Anderson was consumed with last-minute details.

Up to her neck in planning her wedding, the last thing she expected was to be diagnosed with breast cancer.

“I spent all of the month of June both planning the wedding and making doctor’s visits,” the 35-year-old Island Lake resident said. “It was kind of bittersweet because I was so excited for the wedding day, but I knew I’d have to go in for treatments when it was over.”

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