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Article: Ann Marcou, 72; co-founded Y-ME breast cancer group
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 10, 2004
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The telephone in the kitchen would ring and Ann Marcou would leave
the pot on the stove or get out of bed at 4 a.m. to counsel a
terrified fellow-sufferer of breast cancer.
From that humble beginning Mrs. Marcou and her friend Mimi Kaplan
went on to found the Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization,
bringing information and support to tens of thousands of women across
the country and around the world.
Mrs. Marcou beat breast cancer. But she had smoked for years and
gave it up too late. She died Saturday at her Olympia Fields home of
advanced small cell lung cancer. She was 72.
A fighter to the end, she had been hospitalized but made it out in
time to attend the Y-ME fashion show Oct. 23 ...