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Mary Odano, who came to America as a refugee from what is now South Sudan, was reported missing this month and found a week later outside her apartment building, dead from hypothermia.
'We must speak about the disease that's killing us' After a double mastectomy and more than a year of chemotherapy, a young South Sudanese immigrant speaks about her battle with the 'taboo' of breast cancer Author: Beth Brogan (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 2:09 PM EDT May 10, 2021 Updated: 7:19 PM EDT May 21, 2021 PORTLAND, Maine — For months after she was diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer, Rita Achiro didn't believe it was true. She was 29. She knew of no other women who had battled the illness -- certainly no one in the tight-knit South ...