John Kerry's Wife Has Breast Cancer

(WSJ/WASHINGTON WIRE) - Teresa Heinz, the wife of 2004 Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry (D-Ma.), disclosed that she is battling breast cancer in an editorial in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Wednesday.

"I was diagnosed and treated for stage one cancer (two different types) in both breasts. The cancer was detected at an early stage thanks to a mammogram and the work of a remarkable physician who insisted on investigating beyond what the mammogram could show," she wrote.

"I have had two operations and my prognosis for a full recovery is good."

Heinz editorialized that women should ignore new guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force that stated women at average risk don’t need regular screenings and that mammograms in older women can be reduced to every two years, versus previous annual guidelines.

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