Wednesday, January 6, 2021 Primrose Local woman wages second fight for her life Nearly 30 percent of people diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer will later develop metastatic breast cancer. One of those individuals is a local woman who has been on a breast cancer journey not once, but twice. Ruth Primrose, 58, of Cassville, beat cancer once, back in 2018. Even after beating cancer, Primrose knew she would have a future of PET scans, but she continued to live her life, and she even began raising her two young granddaughters. Unfortunately, Primroses journey was not over, and in late June 2020, she noticed an extreme back pain.