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Article: Breast cancer survivor hopes for Breakthrough
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- Evening News - Scotland
- Article date:
- March 6, 2006
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SITTING in her Edinburgh home chatting with her daughter, Carolyn
MacDougall looks fit and well.
A set of weights in the corner of the lounge is evidence of the
active lifestyle the 53-year-old mother has always tried to lead -
which made it all the more shocking when she was suddenly diagnosed
with breast cancer.
Today, almost two years on, after suffering the trauma of having
one of her breasts removed, Carolyn is among thousands of women who
have volunteered to join a major new generational study investigating
the causes of the deadly disease.
The Breakthrough Generations Study is monitoring 100,000 women
across the UK over 40 years, to try and find which genetic,
environmental and ...