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Breast cancer used to be a near fatal diagnosis. Check out my Huffington Post article for Pearle’s story: 31 years with metastatic breast cancer, and she is still going strong http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cary-a-presant-md/happy-80th-birthday-pearl_b_5885974.html . October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, so make sure your (or your spouse’s) mammography screening is up to date.
I am pleased to announce that I will be signing copies of my book “Surviving American Medicine” at the 2014 L A Times Festival of Books April 14 and 15 at the USC campus in Los Angeles. You can find me at booth 913. On Sunday I will be speaking about health care reform at the USC bookstore, and of course signing more books.
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