By Anne Levin

Kathy Kowalewski had just stopped breast-feeding her toddler son when she noticed her right breast felt different from her left. With no family history of breast cancer, and at 38 still too young to have begun annual mammograms, the mother of two wasn’t particularly concerned. But she consulted her doctor, who recommended a screening. Seeing the results, the doctor urged Kowalewski to have a biopsy of both breasts right away. more