Sharing Mayo Clinic: 'Sneaky' cancer spurs mom and daughter to action

When Lisa Pitre, a Mayo Clinic speech pathologist from Jacksonville, Florida, went in for a routine mammogram in summer 2019, nothing on her imaging was concerning. By October, though, Lisa was diagnosed with stage 4 invasive lobular carcinoma, an aggressive type of breast cancer. "I learned that 20% of breast cancers are not detected on mammograms, and mine was one of those," says the 53-year-old mother of two, noting that her cancer was found only after an MRI…
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