Breast Cancer Awareness Month; today's featured survivor: Malin Marie Babcock
Age: 70 on Halloween.
Juneau resident: Lifelong Juneau resident, except for college and graduate school. Third of five generations of Juneauites.
Family: Son and daughter-in-law, Doug and Shauna Murray; grandson, Phillip Murray; granddaughter, Malin Murray, of Juneau; daughter and son-in-law, Gwen and Bob Horchover, of Whidbey Island, Wash.; and sister and brother-in-law, Susan and Dave Koehler, of Sequim, Wash.
Work: Retired 12-plus years, fisheries research biologist at Auke Bay Laboratories.
Hobbies: Family, dog (Finnish Spitz), international travel, volunteering, knitting and reading.
Kind of cancer: Breast cancer and bladder cancer.
Years surviving: 29 ½ year breast cancer survivor, 1 ½ year bladder cancer survivor.
Quote: "Living with cancer, particularly when in the middle of a 12-month protocol of chemotherapy, forces one to examine and rearrange priorities of life. I focused on how blessed I was to have the good care (all in Juneau in 1980 and in 2008) and support of family, friends and my doctors; and how fortunate I was that both cancers were caught early. I try to find something positive in every day."