COLLABORATION
with caregivers and patients to create healthier lives
Personal
BEST
Courage and tenacity—along
with the tremendous support
of her family and community
—help breast cancer patient
Rebecca Alcozer triumph
W hen Rebecca Alcozer received
a callback following a routine
screening mammogram at Scott & White
Memorial Hospital in Temple, Texas, in
June 2013, she didn’t think much about
it. She has fibrocystic breast tissue, and
callbacks had happened before. Even after
she had a biopsy following another imaging
study called a diagnostic mammography,
Mrs. Alcozer, age 52, still wasn’t alarmed.
That, too, had happened before.
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