Police officer to serve as honorary cancer survivor
By Heather Ruenz
Lina Edwardson said she never thought she’d hear the words: You have cancer. But she did hear those words, less than a year after a clear scan as part of an annual exam.
“To hear those actual words, you go numb and feel lost. I had a completely clear scan in October of 2018 and last June I found a lump,” said Edwardson, 42, who is a police officer in Racine.
The official diagnosis was Triple Negative Breast Cancer, which doesn’t respond to targeted treatment and is more aggressive.
Edwardson said she quickly realized the more she talked about what she at times refers to as the “C word,” the less power it had over her…
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