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Heather’s Story: What I Didn’t Know After My Breast Cancer Diagnosis
Heather Ouida learned she had breast cancer in May 2024. This is her story in her own words. I was celebrating a friend’s 50th birthday in Las Vegas when I learned I had breast cancer. What I didn’t...
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Brett’s Story: Be In Tune With Your Body
In 2023, Brett felt a lump in her breast while breastfeeding her youngest child, who was 3 months old at the time. “I initially thought it was mastitis,” she said. “And I was concerned because I...
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Natalie’s Story: Pieces of Me
Natalie Gutierrez, the mother of twin 13-year-old boys, was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer in 2023. Genetic testing revealed she was positive for the BRCA1 inherited gene mutation. This...
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A Long, Drawn Out Process: Don’t Cancel Annual Mammograms
In 2022, Heather very nearly cancelled her annual mammogram. If she had, the course of her life would likely have changed dramatically. “I almost skipped it, and it probably would have cost me my...
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Lisa’s Story: Finding the Silver Lining
In January 2020, when Lisa first learned she had breast cancer, she and her wife, Kristin, were expecting their first child. At the time, they were living in Puerto Rico for Lisa’s work as a pilot....
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Serena’s Story: Choosing the Right Breast Surgery
After a breast cancer diagnosis, Serena Stull needed to decide whether a lumpectomy or mastectomy was right for her. Serena does not have a history of breast cancer in her family. Her mother did have...
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Whitney’s Story: A 35% Chance of Developing Breast Cancer
Whitney Salts was a caregiver for her mother and grandmother when they were undergoing treatment for breast cancer. Whitney learned through genetic testing that there is a possibility she will develop...
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Something Didn’t Feel Right
During the summer of 2022, Casey Baldwin, who was 32 at the time, felt off. “Something just didn’t feel right,” she said. Thinking it was her birth control or thyroid or hormones, she asked her doctor...
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A Promise Kept
Frances Hammond is an advocate for yearly mammograms. She had promised her mother that when she turned 40, she would get her mammogram yearly, and this was a promise she kept. In 2017, when Frances...
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Stage 2 to Stage 4 Breast Cancer
A month after Tennille Smith rang the bell, signaling she had finished treatment for stage 2 breast cancer, she learned the cancer had spread – she had stage 4 (metastatic) breast cancer, for which...
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