“You’re too young,” Mary was told. We are “99% sure this is not cancer,” said her doctors. But Mary had a feeling deep down that she should continue to be checked and after nearly a month, it was confirmed. The lump in her right breast was cancer. After losing her beautiful, long brown hair to […]

Lisa was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 37, just six short years after her mother had been diagnosed with the same type of breast cancer. As a single mother, Lisa has had to split her time between her two children, ages two and six, and her draining treatments. Since the diagnosis, she has undergone […]

When Rachel received the news that the small bump she found in her breast was actually a very aggressive form of breast cancer, Invasive Lobular Carcinoma, she was shocked. She found out just as she was turning 34. Rachel is a self-employed single mother of two wonderful boys. After diagnosis, she moved forward with a […]

“I didn’t want them to know how bad I actually felt” Nancy said, in reference to her three daughters, shortly after she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer on August 26, 2012. She underwent an extremely difficult process following the diagnosis including chemo, a lumpectomy, a double mastectomy, reconstructive surgery, and even […]

At the young age of 24 years old, Michele found out the devastating newsimg4.jpg that her mother had cancer. Michele was pregnant during her mother’s battle with cancer, so her friends threw her baby shower at her mother’s care center. Although she put up an incredible fight, Michele’s mother unfortunately lost her battle just two […]