“Anyone who met my mother was touched by her spirit. She challenged people to be curious, to seek more, to learn more and to challenge themselves,” LaTour’s daughter, Kirtley Perkins, wrote on Facebook.
BY BRIELLE BENYON AND BETH FAND INCOLLINGO
PUBLISHED JUNE 23, 2020
Kathy LaTour received a breast cancer diagnosis in 1986 at the age of 37 and used her experiences to make a difference in the cancer community — and that started with writing. In a recent blog, she said, “Writing is a release. We take what is stuck in the corners of our minds and put them on paper to be read and reread, watching as they lose their power over us.”
In 1994, she published The Breast Cancer Companion: From Diagnosis Through Treatment to Recovery: Everything You Need to Know for Every Step Along the Way. In 2002, she was one of the founding members of CURE Magazine, which grew to be the largest consumer magazine in the United States for patients, survivors and caregivers to those with cancer. She served as the editor-at-large from the brand’s inception until October 2014 and more recently had been a regular columnist for CURE.
In 1994, she published The Breast Cancer Companion: From Diagnosis Through Treatment to Recovery: Everything You Need to Know for Every Step Along the Way. In 2002, she was one of the founding members of CURE Magazine, which grew to be the largest consumer magazine in the United States for patients, survivors and caregivers to those with cancer. She served as the editor-at-large from the brand’s inception until October 2014 and more recently had been a regular columnist for CURE.
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