Raising Awareness and
Community Support through
the #PinkPatchProject
By: Sergeant Rudy Guatto, Irwindale PD
In 2007, Dorothy Tarozzi, received some devastating
news. The 69 year old widow was diagnosed with
invasive ductal carcinoma, a form of breast cancer
that can spread to the lymph nodes and other areas
of the body. The diagnosis came following a routine
mammogram that revealed suspicious lumps in her
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breast. Further diagnosis and treatment followed,
culminating in lumpectomy surgery.
This was how breast cancer entered my life; by
randomly and unceremoniously attacking my motherin-law, who is not only my wife’s mother, my children’s
grandmother and their children’s great-grandmother,
but who is also a woman who has lovingly and
unquestioningly adopted me as her own son.
Over the next several months, I witnessed my family
come together as we suppor Yܛ