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Bronze: Brystkræft Maria
September 29, 2016
“It is weird going to a pool, when there is a breast missing, and I am totally bold,” says the twenty five year old, Maria Christine Martinsen. But she knows the hair is growing out again. Last year she found a lump in her right breast. She got her breast removed. The doctors got rid of all the cancer and now she is getting preventive chemotherapy. “I try to keep myself going all the time. I take long walks. Stay away from the couch. Last week I was in the forrest watching the animals. Quite funny cause it was doing the mating season,” says Maria Christine Martinsen. Every year about 4.000 Danish women are diagnosed with breast cancer. The risk of getting breast cancer as a woman in the 20s and 30s is quite low compared to elder women. However, the statistics show that young women have higher risk of dying than elder women.
Melissa Kühn Hjerrild / Danish School of Journalism
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