8 Pages – Lena Hallengren is to have surgery

Lena Hallengren is a politician in the Social Democrats. Photo: TT

Politician Lena Hallengren
in the party Social Democrats
will take a break from work in the Riksdag.

She won’t work
in a few weeks.
She is going to have an operation
after she had
breast cancer.

Lena Hallengren writes that
on the Facebook site.

– Three years ago I got sick
in breast cancer and operated on
a breast.
Now I have time for
to make a reconstruction,
writes Hallengren.

Doctors will do a new one
breast instead of breast
which Lena Hallengren had to remove.

Lena Hallengren also writes
that she is fine.

8 PAGES/TT

• Breast cancer is the most common
  cancer for women.
• In Sweden, all women get
  who are between 40 and 74 years old
  check your breasts about every two years.
  It’s called mammography.
• A paper comes home
  in the mailbox when it’s time for a mammogram.
• It is important to check the breasts.
  The chances of surviving breast cancer
  is greater the sooner the cancer is detected.