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Byline: Rebecca Johnson
Melanoma is not for the modest. In an examination room at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in midtown Manhattan, Dawn Russell efficiently stripped off her street clothes, donned a flimsy hospital gown, and climbed onto the examining table. A six-foot-tall, willowy blonde whose delicate, china-doll features elicit constant comparisons to Gwyneth Paltrow, Russell once worked as a house model for Donna Karan and Ralph Lauren, but nothing in that experience prepared her for the hours she has spent standing naked while a team of doctors scans every inch of her body for signs of the cancer that almost killed her. "You learn," she says ...