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Cancer. rachel: wow, you really did listen to your body. that is a huge lesson. will: and what role did yoga play in your story? >> during my recovery -- i had three surgeries in 20 the 14, and we have just so much trauma that happens to our entire breast, our chest wall and the range of motion is very limited. rachel: sure. >> so yoga became something that was such an important part because, first of all, we know that for many studies physical activity the helps reduce your risk of occurrence, also helps reduce your risk of cancer in the first place. pete: we've got about a minute. show us so...

>> reporter: losing her child in 2002, she changed her life and become a patient advocate. her 11-year-old daughter was admitted to a los angeles hospital for elective surgery to repair a chest deformity. following surgery, she says her condition spiralled. >> and i kept telling them she was in a lot of pain. >> reporter: she fell asleep next to her hospital bed. when she woke up -- >> i looked at her. i knew that wasn't leah that was a body. and i screamed. >> reporter: what was the cause of death? >> they put cause of death unknown. >> reporter: but she blames mistakes made in the hospital a...

And bad luck. essentially what happened is a phenomenon called commotio, or commotio cordis, where there is an impact and it can be even a low impact to the chest wall, to the sternum, and a certain point in the cardiac cycle where the ventricle's are filling. it's a 20 milo second window. and if the chest is hit during that 20 millisecond window, it can trigger and a normal heart driven -- and send you into cardiac arrest. essentially, the heart is not able to function effectively, it's unable to pump out blood to vital organs like the brain, and the biggest concern is how is the brain going ...

What happened, there are many possibilities what led to this cardiac arrest. the most likely or most often when you see it, it is in adolescence, baseball players and soccer players thattic tathe ball directly to their chest there chest wall is weaker than an adult. do pad need to be more protective? i don't know, they have done a pretty great job. i think they are going to have to look at this and see are these pads enough and what can we do to further protect our players. >> todd: we have so many questions, hope they are answered within the next couples. dr. nicole saphier, thank you so much...

You for including me in this important conversation. so you're quite right in pointing out that none of us can speak with any authority as to the circumstances that damar finds himself in. but there is something here that's really important for us to flush out. and this is what will was just talking about. i want to just unpack that for a second. will used to turn a frame comodio cortis the drivetive mes commotion or activity in the heart and it turns out to be the case that when trauma occurs, blunt trauma, that means non-penetrating trauma, at just the right time in the cardiac cycle in just...