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Violinist Joan Kwuon poses with her instrument in New York's Central Park, Oct. 9, 2000. The lives of Kwuon and her husband, violinist Joel Smirnoff, center on music. But since she felt a lump in her breast in the summer of 1999, had a mastectomy in November and chemotherapy after that, they have started a foundation, Artists for Breast Cancer Survival Inc. (AP Photo/Jim Cooper)