Breast cancer recovery options could be affected by a health insurance coding change

When Rita Davis found a small nodule on her right breast, the middle school teacher and her husband, Britt, had no idea that discovery would turn into more than a yearlong fight against aggressive cancer that involved doctors removing her right breast and giving her chemotherapy and radiation. Davis lost her hair, eyebrows, nails and her sense of self.

"Everything is so uncontrollable to you as the patient," she said.

So when doctors asked if Davis wanted breast reconstruction surgery, she agreed.