May 7th, 2003 . . . . . Katherine Klemin was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Cancer does not have to be a death sentence.

As if a painful divorce and rough re-entry into the work force, after playing stay-at-home mom to three children, wasn’t enough to manage, the results of Katherine’s annual physical exam were devastating.  Her primary care doctor found a lump in her breast. Over the course of several weeks, she underwent a mammogram which subsequently lead to an ultrasound only to be followed up by a fine needle aspiration which yielded inconclusive results. A biopsy finally revealed that Katherine had an infiltrating ductal carcinoma – breast cancer.  She knew that surgery was next and that it would be a mastectomy.
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Katherine is our model for our 2004 Merlot-Shriaz.