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Article: Group offers refuge from breast cancer; Gilda's Club launches effort aimed at young women with disease.(Capital Region)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- July 13, 2007
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Byline: Staff report
LATHAM - Gilda's Club Capital Region New York is starting a new monthly networking group for young women living with breast cancer. It will be a place for them to share information, ideas, tears, laughter and hopes for the future.
The group, called Breast Cancer When You Least Expect It, will meet for the first time from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday at Gilda' Clubhouse at 1 Penny Lane (off Wade Road) in Latham. The group will be open to women between the ages of 18 and 40 who are living with breast cancer.
While breast cancer in young women still accounts for a small percentage of all breast cancer diagnoses, the impact of breast ...