Wrangell Sentinel -

For Rhonda Christian, life as a breast cancer survivor is filled with moments of small horror.

She remembers the moment in March when tests at Mt. Edgecumbe Medical Center revealed what might be a small mass, amid planning for her and husband Ernie’s honeymoon in Jamaica. There was the moment when her husband insisted on getting it checked out in Seattle, on a more accurate, updated machine.

And then there was the moment when she woke up from anesthesia and looked down, and her breast was gone.

“I don’t know how to describe it,” she said. “The hardest part was seeing the love and...