FHSTheFlash The Flash Volume 54, Issue 1 October 2013 | Page 9

Her Friends

October is
Breast Cancer
Awareness
Month
Facts:
• Breast cancer can be associated with
genetics

Cook assists a student during Creative Writing
Photo Credit: Savanna Di Stefano

things happen, we trip over
ourselves, and she doesn’t even allow
you a moment of that un comfort,”
fascinating,” Thompson said.
Even former students are donating Scopas said.
Those who know Cook agree in
to Race for the Cure in honor of
unison that she is supporting her
Cook.
own supporters by keeping cool,
“[Cook] is a wonderfully witty,
calm, and collected.
beautiful soul that challenged me
“Her ability to laugh at cancer is
to always be
the most healing
articulate, elegant, “I want to give my students
things for her,
and confident. She
110 percent of myself. The last and it doesn’t
was more than
thing I want is their education just support
a teacher, she is
her, it supports
truly a role model compromised” - Anne Cook
everyone else who
for young women,”
is supporting her
former student
it shows us that she’s still the same,”
Chelsea Strzelecki said.
Thompson said.
FHS is more than just a building
Cook’s radiating personality has
where teenagers are forced to go and
touched her Fraser family. Because
attend classes every day, it is a place
of that, the school is excited to
where people come together and
support her.
build relationships. It’s no wonder
“When you have an experience like
why so many people jump up to
this, you realize you’re surrounded
support this English teacher who is
by more love and compassion than
overwhelmingly loved.
you could ever have imagined. That’s
“She is someone who takes things
what Fraser is. From the beginning,
in seriously and deeply yet she
they’ve been so kind and so
has handled it, as she handles
beautifully loving that you can’t help
everything, with such grace and
but feel it physically,” Cook said.
humor. For a lot of people, when

• Tumors are created by massive cell
growth.
• There are two types of tumors: benign
(non cancerous) and malignant (cancerous).
• Healthy living decreases risk of being
diagnosed with cancer
• About 1% of breast cancer diagnoses
in the U.S occur in men
• Stages: stage 0 (carcinoma in situ),
Stage I, Stage II, Stage III A, Stage
III B, Stage III C, Stave IV
• Stages are determined by size and
spread.

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