Pink Power Run to benefit breast cancer support group

Barbara Harris, left, leads a session of the Statesboro-Bulloch County Breast Cancer Foundation's Breast Cancer support group at the Averitt Center for the Arts on March 11. The group offers an opportunity for local breast cancer survivors share their stories, thoughts and feelings with one another.

031113 BREAST CANCER SUPPORT 02 — Barbara Harris, left, leads a session of the Statesboro-Bulloch County Breast Cancer Foundation's Breast Cancer support group at the Averitt Center for the Arts on March 11. The group offers an opportunity for local breast cancer survivors share their stories, thoughts and feelings with one another.

If her friend had not been diagnosed with breast cancer, Rachel Harewood might never have felt the comfort she gets from attending a local breast cancer support group. When Harewood discovered she had cancer — after finding a lump in her breast during a self-exam on the Fourth of July in 2011 — she initially rebuffed her doctor's suggestion to attend the Statesboro-Bulloch County Breast Cancer Foundation support group. “I turned him down time and time again because I didn't want to be around a bunch of ladies that cry,” Harewood said.

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