BARBARA ALLEN (POLITICIAN)

'Barbara Allen' is a Republican Kansas State Senator from the 8th District. She is from Overland Park, Kansas and is an attorney. Allen graduated with a Bachelor of Science from Mount Vernon College and a Degree from the University of Missouri Kansas City Law School. She was first elected to the Kansas House in 1988 and then to the Kansas Senate in 2000.^[1] In March of 2005, Allen was informed that she had breast cancer. Unable to be treated in Kansas, Allen sought treatment at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. After, twelve rounds of chemotherapy, thirty-three radiation treatments, and surgery, doctors said that they can't detect cancer in Allen.^[2]

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1. http://skyways.lib.ks.us/kansas/senategop/profiles/allen.html
2. http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/401706/breast_cancer/index.html