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Archive Home > 2007 > November > 15 > Filling in the gaps

Filling in the gaps

One in two men and one in three women will have cancer at some point in their lifetime. Each year, an estimated 700,000 Americans will have a first heart attack. Every 45 seconds, someone in the United States has a stroke.

By Markian Hawryluk / The Bulletin
November 15, 2007

Kerry Morton, a 35-year-old elementary school teacher in Bend, believes she has a coin-flip’s chance of getting cancer. Relatives on both sides of her family, including her older sister, have had lymphomas, a cancer of cells in the immune system.

“It’s a hereditary....

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