Margo's Story: Fighting Cancer Before It Starts

By LAUREN GROVER
Staff Writer
Her hearty laugh is bold, like her ink-black hair that refuses to gray, and encircling Margo Adams' small, graceful frame are two long scars that meet at her spine and curl around to her chest.
For Margo, cancer wasn't a shock. At 18, she watched her mother fight and lose to it. And, like her mom, the disease has always been with her, a part of her very make-up.
"Cancer was never 'Poor me,'" said Margo, 59, sipping wine over a plate of sushi on Tuesday. "My mother died of it at 42. I was 18, my brother was 15, and we didn't get it. I wanted to outlive her."
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(photo by Herb Nygren Jr./Tyler Morning Telegraph)