A Survivor Story: Cottage Grove breast cancer conqueror her own advocate

COTTAGE GROVE – When Lori Sias noticed a dimple in her breast in 2006, she was told this was very common among women, that there was no need to panic – but her gut told her that something was wrong.

She quickly bought health insurance in August 2006. Sias was diagnosed with third stage intraductal breast cancer the next month.

“It would have killed me,” Sias said. “It would have broken me.”

Sias went through…