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Jaclyn Smith on surviving Breast
Cancer
(From cnn.com)
Actress Jaclyn Smith will never
forget the day she found out she had breast cancer. And she'll
never forget the lesson she learned in those very first moments of
being a cancer patient.
As her doctor gave her the
diagnosis, "I was in a state of panic," she says. "It was kind of
surreal, and you don't really hear what they're saying."
The lesson she learned that day: "Don't go it alone," she says.
Her husband, Brad Allen, who was with her at the doctor's office,
was better able to focus and ask questions about the best
treatment options.
Smith says she remembers she did manage to ask one question: "I
said, 'Am I going to be here for my children?' He said, '98
percent, yes.' "
Five years later, Smith is indeed here for her children. She's one
of the 2.4 million women in the United States who've survived
breast cancer, according to the National Cancer Institute.
According to a report out this week from the American Cancer
Society, the death rate from breast cancer went down 2.2 percent
per year from 1990 to 2004.
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