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Judy Rankin
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An announcement of Judy Rankin's receipt of the 2002 Bob Jones Award which is given in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship in golf. It includes a brief look at her career and a list of former winners.
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Ten days later, Rankin's doctor, Shelton Viney, called with the Mayo Clinic report. "He said the test couldn't definitively say it was cancer, but it was his recommendation that the tissue be removed." She entered Midland Memorial Hospital, near her home in Midland, Tex. "The whole process scared me to death," Rankin says. "They had to put a wire into the center of the area so that the surgeon had something to guide him for cutting." Her doctor removed breast tissue and a sentinel lymph node from her left armpit, to determine whether the cancer had spread to her lymphatic system.
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Rankin needed every ounce of that will when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in April of 2006. Two months later, she made the difficult decision to have a double mastectomy to eliminate the risk of recurrence, a choice her doctor told her would save her life as she was wheeled into the operating room.
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Judy Rankin sounded as upbeat as ever Tuesday, hopeful the hard part of cancer surgery was behind her. She cooked dinner for the first time, and even had the strength to take her dogs for walk at home in Midland, Texas.
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Rankin remembers vividly the "jaw-dropping experience when you're told, yes, it is cancer." She said she couldn't talk for three days before the double mastectomy. Her family and friends like Sarah Strange, Curtis Strange's wife, who is ... a breast cancer survivor, helped Rankin through the ordeal.
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Jeannette Pickering Rankin was born on June 11, 1880. Her father, John Rankin, was a rancher and lumber merchant and her mother, Olive Pickering, a former schoolteacher. She spent her first years on the ranch, then moved with the family to Missoula where she attended public school. She was the oldest of eleven children.
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