JAN SEEGER/Staff photo.
Placing a pen half precariously on the table between them, colon cancer survivor Joseph McCarthy, right, talks about his experience with the disease, with Dr. Frank MacMillan, saying that like the pen, right now he is living close to the edge, during a private meeting at North Andover Town Hall Thursday.
, JAN SEEGER/Staff photo.
Placing a pen half precariously on the table between them, colon cancer survivor Joseph McCarthy, right, talks about his experience with the disease, with Dr. Frank MacMillan, saying that like the pen, right now he is living close to the edge, during a private meeting at North Andover Town Hall Thursday.

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