On the day Laura Morton first found a lump on her breast, she had just published a book with Joan Lunden — about Joan’s experience with cancer. “I know for sure that if I had not written Joan’s book, I would not have paid as close attention to the lump,” Laura says. And it’s a good thing that she did pay attention. That lump turned out to be DCIS, or stage 1 breast cancer.
Laura, a best-selling author, a TV producer, and a mother, said that her experience with cancer taught her a few important lessons — one of those being to do something as soon as you feel something. “Know your body and listen to your body,” Laura says.
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The cancer took Laura by surprise, and really scared her young daughter — especially because Laura’s mother had passed away from breast cancer when she was just 35. “My daughter began to worry that I might die,” Laura says. “I did take my daughter to see our family therapist, where we assured her that not all mommies get cancer and not all mommies die.” Her cancer eventually did progress, and Laura says that was the only time she cried during her experience with the disease. “I cried because I didn’t want my daughter to think I lied to her.”
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