Fourth-grade cheerleaders surround Becky Landers during a recent Youth Football League game which featured a pink-out. As a special guest, Landers got in for free. (Cathy Spaulding)
Positive attitude keeps Landers' cancer at bay Story by Cathy Spaulding
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T-shirt proclaiming "Breast Cancer messed with the wrong chick," shows how Haskell resident Becky Landers remains steadfast in confronting breast cancer. "I haven't cried over this one time," Landers said. "I will not let this get me down. To me, letting it get me down means letting it beat me."
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She said she seeks to believe "this is just another thing, it will be over." "That's part of the healing to me," she said. "It will pass just as other things do. God will get me through it." Landers, 56, has made sure others keep positive as well. "I've determined that from the very beginning," she said. "When I called my dad to tell him, he'd freak out and I said, 'Dad we're not doing this. We're not going to play the game this way. We're gong to start out positive. It's going to be over and it's going to be fine." Landers traces her story to February. "I started noticing that my right breast was heavier, bigger, more dense, just kind of different than the
