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To Welecia Magsisi, it looked like a white speck. To her doctor, it was ductal carcinoma in situ. But over the phone that day in March 2020, the day before the city would declare a state of emergency, Magsisi s breast cancer diagnosis just sounded like a bunch of medical jargon.
Magsisi had been religious about getting regular mammograms. At 74, with several surgeries behind her, the Elmhurst resident knew the importance of going to the doctor, even if nothing felt wrong. Nothing did feel wrong when she went for her annual mammogram in January 2020. Still, there was that little white dot. A biopsy showed cancer.