Loretta’s Path Through Breast Cancer and Reconstruction For years, Loretta Cottrell had helped hundreds of patients wake up from surgery in the recovery rooms at Highland Hospital. She knew the rhythms of healing, the sounds of monitors, the relief in patients’ eyes when they realized their surgery was over. What she hadn’t expected was to

Sally sat in her car by Canandaigua Lake, tears streaming down her face. At 37, she’d learned she carried a genetic mutation: a ticking time bomb in her DNA that, combined with her family history, gave her up to a 90% chance of developing breast cancer. The PALB2 mutation that had already wreaked havoc on