IN Carlynton-Montour Summer 2014 | Page 12

An Education in Awareness: Montour Teacher and Breast Cancer Survivor Tina Frank Encourages Women to Empower Themselves. Surround yourself with positive people. I n the spring of 2008, Christina (Tina) Frank was enjoying life as an AP Chemistry teacher at Montour High School when she discovered a lump during a breast self-examination. Anxious and understandably scared, she saw her doctor, and was relieved to learn that a biopsy of the lump was negative. In the fall of that year, Tina, who was 44 years old at the time, scheduled surgery to remove the lump. The surgeon sent it to the pathology lab for testing, and Tina assumed that all would be fine. Y