Target Chip Ganassi Racing for the second consecutive year is showing its support for Breast Cancer Awareness Month with special pink Breast Cancer Research Foundation liveries for the Toyota Indy 400 at California Speedway source: indycar.com - Dave Lewandowski It's an especially vivid color for Gilbert Swafford, rear mechanic on the No. 33 car and this weekend working on the No. 10 car driven by Jaques Lazier. His wife, Janelle, is a double breast cancer survivor. Nine years after undergoing a lumpectomy and subsequent chemotherapy and radiation treatments at Women's Hospital in Indianapolis, a mammogram detected a spot on her other breast. She recently underwent a bilateral mastectomy for ductal carcinoma, which accounts for 80 percent of all breast cancers. "The first time my wife got breast cancer, I didn't know how to react," Swafford said. "At least the second time, we know what to expect and we know the technology is better. It was just as bad the second time, but we knew how to deal with it. "Sometimes I can help out; sometimes I just can be there." Awareness, in addition to research, is ongoing - and important. "Everyone needs to know about it," Swafford said. "If it wasn't for the mammogram, she wouldn't have seen it because it was so small."
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