Targeting breast cancer with radioactive seeds

Back in her village of Ste-Sabine near Sherbrooke, Marie-Ève Julien had a brave face for her family, who were stressed and scared about her cancer diagnosis.
“I’m not going to die of cancer. I’m going to get new breasts,” Julien told her 13-year-old daughter, Marianne, early Thursday morning. However, after the 41-year-old cosmetician got a tiny radioactive seed — about the size of a sesame seed — injected into her right breast to mark the sit