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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

The first stop for new breast cancer patients is usually the operating table. But for many women, chemotherapy could be the place to start.

Wendy Wilson was on a healthy living path – making better choices and hitting the gym regularly – when the 55-year-old information technology worker from Ajax, Ont., heard those life-altering words: breast cancer.

Soon after being told in May that the lump in her right breast wasn’t just one of the many benign cysts she has had drained over the years, Wendy was meeting with Sunnybrook’s Dr. Jean-François Boileau – and on her way to contributing to research that may one day turn breast cancer treatment protocol on its head.

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