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Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Judy Muller and Alison Trope on Living with Breast Cancer For the past few months we’ve been bringing you the story of Alison Trope and Judy Muller, two professors who teach a course together at USC and were each diagnosed with breast cancer around the same time. Today we share the latest installment of their story. Muller has finished her treatment for now, and life is much different for her than it is for Trope at the moment. Alison is still undergoing chemotherapy.
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
USC Professors Face Cancer Together Alison Trope and Judy Muller are two professors who teach a course together at USC and were each diagnosed with breast cancer around the same time. They’ve been using humor to deal with their diagnoses and to get through treatment, and they’ve been sharing their personal stories on Medium, the online blog network. We brought you their story in March , and we check back in with them.
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
2 Professors Face Breast Cancer Together Judy Muller and Alison Trope, who co-teach a class together at USC, were both diagnosed with breast cancer this last year. Now they’re sharing their personal stories on Medium, the online blog network, and they join Madeleine to talk about why.
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