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Susan Butcher Gallery

BETH BRAGG

Butcher left behind a legion of fans and friends

Many of us feel as though we knew Susan Butcher, even if the extent of our knowledge consisted of watching her and her dogs on Fourth Avenue each March at the start of the Iditarod.

Butcher loses cancer fight

Far from her Alaska home and the dogs she loved so much, four-time Iditarod champion Susan Butcher died Aug. 5 in a Seattle hospital.

Butcher says she'll conquer leukemia

With the single-minded focus she once applied to winning 1,100-mile sled dog races, four-time Iditarod champion Susan Butcher has launched a seven-month campaign to beat her leukemia and an associated blood disease.

4-time Iditarod champ diagnosed with leukemia

Four-time Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champ Susan Butcher, who battled ferocious Bering Sea storms to dominate dog-mushing in the 1980s and become one of the nation's most celebrated sportswomen, is now fighting for her life in a Seattle hospital.

Butcher prepares for marrow transplant

Susan Butcher has a bone marrow donor -- and a backup donor too. So far she's weathered the second round of chemotherapy well. And now the plan is for a bone marrow transplant in early April.

Butcher rallies marrow donors

Fresh from what she described as a "magical week" along the Iditarod Trail, not as a musher but as an observer, Susan Butcher was in high spirits Wednesday.

Butcher's plight lures many to donor registry

More than a thousand Alaskans came forward Friday to literally offer a piece of themselves to Iditarod champion musher Susan Butcher and anyone else who might be sick enough to need new bone marrow.

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