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The day before Frances Poole Knight, 73, flew to California to swim in the National Senior Olympics in August, she got bad news. A recent mammogram had shown some calcification in her breast"little crystals, as she puts it"and she had to return for a biopsy. The diagnosis: breast cancer.

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