WASHINGTON - Kathy Merkel began a battle for her life last month, when a lump on her breast was diagnosed as cancer.
"Your life changes in one second," said Merkel, a 43-year-old St. Paul, Minn., woman who this month started chemotherapy.
But Merkel's optimistic. Although cancer in all its forms kills 560,000 Americans a year, survival rates are increasing because of earlier detection and better treatments.
Merkel caught her cancer early.
"That's what will save my life," she said.
Merkel was part of a crowd, which ... |
