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Have you attended any of the Lovelace Women’s Hospital Breast Care Center’s “Embrace” seminars? Embrace is a supportive program for breast cancer patients and survivors with the mission to provide nurturing support throughout the cancer care continuum of our patients.

After surgery in 2014, Beth Wagner, Lovelace Breast Care Center patient, was left with one major reaction. “My lumpectomy was nothing compared to my lymph node surgery, which left me with extreme numbness all over my arm,” Beth shares. “I would get out of the shower crying because I would reach with soap to my underarm and it would feel like it wasn’t even there.