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Meredith Begley

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Meredith Begley is a contributing writer and editor for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF). She spent eight years on the Marketing and Communications team at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and served as a health editor for the New York Daily News and Metro Newspapers. Additionally, her work has appeared in Healthline, Yahoo, and the New York Post, among others.

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