Twins share breast cancer and rare surgery

Identical twins Kelly McCarthy and Kristen Maurer have shared a lot in their lives, so when one was diagnosed with breast cancer, she urged the other to get tested, too.

“You just do everything together, don’t you,” the doctor told Maurer before delivering the bad news that she, too, had the disease.

Now the 34-year-old twins from Crown Point, Indiana, are sharing a medical rarity: Maurer donated skin and fat tissue for McCarthy’s breast reconstruction.