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Laura Stride is willing to show the scars from her breast cancer surgery to help dispel fear in
others who may face the disease
a record number of people—more than 37,000—
walking in the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer
Foundation’s Race for the Cure. Participants raised
about $1.6 million for breast cancer research in
that event, according to the foundation.
Stride even managed to hike in the Colum­
bia River Gorge and participate in a three-
kilometer event for Komen during her cancer
treatment earlier this year.
She said she’ll always do the race, but she
also encourages women in their 20s and 30s to
think about breast cancer detection. Although
Stride has met other survivors in those age
groups, she doesn’t think the campaigns focus
enough on young women.
“Even at that race, they hand out things say­
ing, ‘Get your mammogram starting at [age]
40,’ ” she said. “1 tell women all the time—
cashiers, at coffee shops, wherever it comes up—
‘Go get a mammogram!’ ”
Stride said she has a gut feeling that her
prognosis is good. “I don’t sit and think about
dying at all, but 1 am having some post-
traumatic stress."
Stride Slid CAT and PET scans after her
surgery came out clean. She must visit her
oncologist every three months this year, then
every six months in her second year of recovery
and once a year thereafter.
Stride asked her surgeon about the chances
of a recurrence of the cancer and was told there’s
no way of knowing. Nevertheless, she said she
doesn’t want people to be fearful.
“I feel like talking about it dispels fear about
it,” she said. "It encourages people to get
checked.”
Her advice to friends of cancer patients?
“If you know someone who’s having cancer
treatment, I really believe in the power of posi­
tive intent,” she said. “Some people refer to it as
prayer. It means so much to send a card to some­
body saying: ‘I am thinking of you. I am sending
positive energy.’ ”
For her part, Stride said she hasn’t had a hard
time adjusting to her changed body. She even
maintains a sense of humor about it.
“1 remember the first time I was going out to
the store, and I thought, Td better put on a
bra,’ ” she said. “And I thought, ‘I don’t have to!’
That’s kind of liberating, just putting on a
T-shirt.” JH
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