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Published: June 11, 2009 03:54 am    print this story  

Alice Moore’s breast cancer discovered in early stage

By Mallory Panuska
Times West Virginian

FAIRMONT — (Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a series of features about cancer survivors that will be published throughout the week leading to Friday’s Relay for Life at Fairmont State University).

Alice Moore has a good friend to thank for saving her life.

About five years ago, the then-63-year-old Mannington resident was getting a massage from her friend Nancy Metz.

She had been going to Metz on a regular basis for five or six years for massages, but during this particular visit, Metz asked her for a favor. Moore said Metz asked her to “please go for a checkup, because I feel there’s something wrong with you.”

And that very day, she called her doctor and scheduled a physical and a mammogram for later in the week. On the night after the mammogram, Moore’s doctor called her and asked her to come back the following day, where she was told that they had found something.

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Alice Moore was diagnosed with breast cancer about five years ago after a good friend urged her to get her health checked out. Today, she is almost finished with her medication after beating the disease and lives a full and happy life. PHOTO BY DANNY SNYDER/Times West Virginian (Click for larger image)



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