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dailyherald. com > 20/26/0524 > news > st-charles-woman-conquers-breast-cancer-now-fights-brain-cancer

St. Charles woman conquers breast cancer, now fights brain cancer

20+ hour, 38+ min ago  (34+ words) Michelle Wilcox had breast cancer beat. Wilcox, 65, of St. Charles, said she inherited the PALB2 gene" Partner and Localizer of BRCA2" known as one of the breast cancer genes. "I got the gene. .....

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dailyherald. com > 20/25/0717 > health-and-fitness > her-mom-died-of-breast-cancer-she-made-a-tool-to-help-detect-it

Her mom died of breast cancer. She made a tool to help detect it.

10+ mon, 1+ week ago  (871+ words) Twenty years ago, Leslie Holton was a graduate student studying virtual reality in medicine when her mother died of metastatic breast cancer. "My mom and grandmother both died of breast cancer," said Holton, who was 26 at the time. Losing them…...