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Every year, 200,000 women in America are diagnosed with breast cancer. Many are in the baby boomer generation. It is the second-leading cause of death in women and the most common cancer. Author Ruth Peltason’s new book, I Am Not My Breast Cancer, (published by HarperCollins) is a frank, open and loving discussion about a disease that impacts so many lives. Here is an excerpt from chapter six, “I behold myself womanly.”

“I behold myself womanly.”

What does it mean to be womanly after you’ve been diagnosed with breast cancer? How does a mastectomy, for example, change the way you think of yourself—are you still attractive to others, and more important still, how do you regard yourself?

At various times over the years, my oldest brother will tell me he thinks I’m a “hottie.”

“Me?” I reply. “At my age? Are you nuts?”

Yet it’s his way of saying that despite the surgeries and physical changes, he doesn’t think that my attractiveness is in any way diminished.

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