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Charlotte Safrit was only 42 when she started experiencing intense episodes of sweating and feeling overheated. The symptoms began shortly after she had a double mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation for triple-positive breast cancer.

“I was talking to my oncologist one day and I was like, ‘Sometimes I just get really sweaty all of a sudden and I don’t know why,’” she said. “And then mid-sentence I was like, ‘Oh wait, that’s a hot flash, isn’t it?’”…

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