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Comforting the afflicted

Pam Thompsonâ??s February 2006 breast cancer diagnosis had been the shock of her life. But after a year of treatment, she thought the worst was over. The 50-year-old Sun Prairie woman had no idea a fight remained, on a front she never expected.”I thought I had good insurance,” says Thompson, who now realizes the commonness of her mistake. “Everybody thinks they have good insurance until they try to use it.”