Bostonians are fortunate to have an excellent hospital like Mass General! Here’s the view from the ninth floor. You can see the golden dome of the Statehouse near the top. When I was seated in the waiting room at the Avon Center this morning, I looked around at the other patients, waiting just like me. I asked myself, these young women, dressed in blue half-johnnies over jeans and scrolling through their phones … what do we have in common? Well, we are part of the one in eight American women to have developed breast cancer. No one knows why the rate is so high, but I have an idea. Toxic chemicals in the environment must play a role. I had my annual mammogram and saw my oncologist and hightailed it out of there. But am I ever grateful that my lumpectomy last December went so well and that there’s no sign of a recurrence …

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