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By Tracey Aiello, as told to Jo Cavallo  / January 15, 2013

I’m Not the Same Person I Was before Cancer

It’s not clear to me—and my doctors can’t say with any certainty—whether taking birth control pills for many years had anything to do with my getting breast cancer 3 years ago, at age 44. But the cancer growing in my left breast was diagnosed as stage I, estrogen receptor–positive. Although I never ...