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Health Sense

Optimism isn't the cure

By Judy Foreman
Globe Columnist / August 10, 2004

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Nancy Achin Audesse, 45, knows a thing or two about serious illness and optimism. Audesse, executive director of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine, has had cancer four times: Hodgkin's disease when she was 14, breast cancer at 33, a second bout (which included a relapse of the first, plus a whole new tumor) at 34, and melanoma at ... (Full Article: 785 Words)

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