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Jamie White, nurse navigator at the cancer center, stands for a portrait near the bell cancer patients ring after treatment on Monday at North Alabama Medical Center. [DAN BUSEY/TIMESDAILY]

Jamie White, nurse navigator at the cancer center, stands for a portrait near the bell cancer patients ring after treatment on Monday at North Alabama Medical Center. [DAN BUSEY/TIMESDAILY]

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