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Woman's Life Saved by Routine Mammogram: Carole McGivern's Cancer Treatment Story

Aboard a trampoline-turned-ship, Carole McGivern fishes with her great nephew and great niece. Four-year-old Grey pulls in an imaginary tuna and octopus out of the ocean of grass while his one-year-old sister, Sienna, acts as sous-chef, helping McGivern chop it up for a play-acting feast.

McGivern babysits Grey and Sienna every Thursday. A routine she's grateful she didn't have to give up once a January mammogram revealed she had cancer.

"I was shocked, speechless. My husband was too, my children, we just didn't know what to expect. What's going to happen. My daughter's getting married this ye...