The Breast Defense is a Good Offense: Facing Life and Breast Cancer with an Infusion of Humor and Attitude

It isn't every day you find out that you have breast cancer right smack in the middle of moving into your dream home. And as far as Cathy Croshaw--attorney, wife, mother, and proud new owner of a house in Lake Tahoe, California--was concerned, cancer wasn't on the schedule.

Caught up in the whirlwind of moving day, her life packed into boxes and her husband directing movers from room to room, Cathy got the kind of phone call no one wants to receive: The hospital that had performed her routin...