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Oct 28, 2009 10:01 pm US/Central
TWU Professor Offering Hope In Breast Cancer Walk
DENTON (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ―
1996. 2000. 2005. Those are three years a North Texas woman will never forget. They are the years she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Now a three time survivor, Venita Lovelace-Chandler offered hope to students at Texas Woman's University in Denton during a walk and talk for breast cancer awareness.
More than 50 women participated in the "Pink Promises Memory Walk" which felt more like a march. But Lovelace-Chandler had no trouble keeping pace - though she's 60, though she's a grandmother, though she's survived breast cancer three times.
"You can survive one episode and live a while. And if you have another episode you can fight that one too. So, it's kind of exciting to know that now it might be considered more of an ongoing battle but it doesn't have to feel like a death sentence," she said.
Lovelace-Chandler is a professor of pediatric physical therapy with TWU. She eats right and keeps in shape. She has practiced Breast Self Exam since college. That's how she found all three cancers. "I do think I'm lucky to be here," Lovelace-Chandler said.
Not everyone is. Dr. Jody Early, one of the walk's primary organizers said "I come from a family with a history of breast cancer. Two of my maternal aunts had breast cancer. My step mother died 10 years ago of breast cancer. And, I have two beautiful daughters. So I'm very passionate." She says more steps need to be taken to connect uninsured women to services and for a cure.
Though Texas Woman's is known as the largest university in the United States primarily for women, the walk was a first time event; but, definitely not the last.
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