EUREKA - For more than 30 years, Patty Cuffe has screened thousands of women for breast cancer as a mammography technologist at Advocate Eureka Hospital. `I`m the caregiver, not the patient,` Cuffe said in her Eureka home last week. For years, Grant Cuffe, Patty`s adult son, led a healthy life. `I was in fantastic shape and ready to start my career,` Grant said. But in 2012, Patty was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a bilateral mastectomy, and Grant was diagnosed with aggressive testicular cancer and given a 20 percent chance of survival. `It was a roller-coaster ride,` said Patty`s husband and Grant`s father, Jim, a 59-year-old retired union carpenter. `Cancer doesn`t care who you are,...
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