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Article: BREAST CANCER SURVIVORS LONG ON HOPE.(L.A. LIFE)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- March 11, 1997
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Byline: Carol Bidwell Daily News Staff Writer
It was a visit to the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C., that a decade later gave Marilyn Gayler Axelrod the idea of creating a similar tangible remembrance to women who have battled breast cancer.
Unlike the Vietnam Memorial, the women that Axelrod - who survived a 1990 mastectomy - wanted to memorialize were not the ones who died, but the women who went on to live cancer-free lives after treatment.
``The day I was diagnosed with breast cancer, I promised I'd do something for the cause,'' said the 49-year-old Davis woman. ``The result was the Wall of Hope.''
The wall - a 70-foot-long ...