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How First Lady Betty Ford and surgeon Bernie Fisher revolutionized America’s attitude toward breast cancer

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Stacy Wentworth, MD
Clinical associate, Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University School of Medicine; Host and producer, Less Radical podcast, which covers the story of Bernie Fisher and the NSABP
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Clinical associate, Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University School of Medicine; Host and producer, Less Radical podcast, which covers the story of Bernie Fisher and the NSABP
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