Opinion: Cokie Roberts: A beacon for cancer survivors like me

Cokie Roberts wore about as many hats as her full name, Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Roberts: “Legendary journalist.” “Best-selling author. “Emmy award winner.” A “founding mother of NPR.” She was all these but there’s one more moniker that resonated with me and many, many others: “cancer survivor.”

News of her death — from “complications from breast cancer,” as her family said in a statement — came unexpectedly this week. Veteran news anchor and breast cancer survivor Linda Ellerbee described her feelings of grief, and rage, in a CNN op-ed: “We used what we knew to fight for our lives, and for the lives of other women. We pointed out early and often that nobody knew much about breast cancer. We protested. Maybe we changed something. Maybe we didn’t.”

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