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A friend has sent you a link to an article found on FlatheadBeacon.com. To read the full text of this article online, click here: http://www.flatheadbeacon.com/articles/article/new_accreditation_places_northwest_healthcares_cancer_program_among_nations/27704/ ARTICLE EXCERPT: When Kalispell resident Jan Ruff-Strait was diagnosed with Stage IIIA invasive breast cancer in late 2010, she and her husband feared they would have to leave home and travel for treatment. But that wasn't necessary. "Although our world had just been turned upside down, there were people right here at home who were up to the task of ridding my body of this terrible disease," Ruff-Strait said recently. "We had everything we needed and never had to drive more than 20 minutes to get it."