

Fly Fishing as Cancer Therapy - How it can help women avoid a common side effect of treatment
On Saturday, Prothero and seven other women will take a fly-fishing trip down the Yakima River. The women have all had breast cancer. Dr. Sandra Vermeulen, a radiation oncologist at Northwest and avid fly fisher for 13 years, recruited them for the outing. Vermeulen and her husband have fished rivers and streams in Spain, England, Washington and Idaho. The activity is engrossing, the scenery beautiful, she says. But Vermeulen has a more specific goal in mind. Fly-fishing, wit