Opinion: Life-saving medical support should not be a privilege
Leighanne Soden, secretary executive director at West Cancer Foundation, poses inside the foundation’s new wig boutique to provide free wigs for cancer patients. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian)
“Cancer doesn’t care where you live. But in this city, where you live can still determine whether you live.”
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