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about one in eight women will develop

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breast cancer in their lifetime . Ah ,

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woman's risk of breast cancer nearly

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doubles if she has a first degree

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relative . So a mother , sister

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daughter who has been diagnosed with

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breast cancer . However , 85% of breast

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cancers occurring women who have no

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family history , so it's usually caused

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by a genetic mutation . So a mammogram

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should be done annually after age 40 .

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Unless you have a first degree family

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member who was diagnosed with breast

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cancer . And usually you start 10 years

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prior to that . So let's save Your mom

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was diagnosed with breast cancer at 40 .

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You would start screening at 30 . Not

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necessarily . Every person that has a

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first degree relative that was

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diagnosed with breast cancer will get

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breast cancer . Um , it's like I said ,

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like usually a genetic mutation that

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happens . Ah , lot of the myths about

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ma'am Moses that they hurt and they

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shouldn't hurt as attack . I've been

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attacked for almost five years . It's

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the text job to make sure that you're

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walking them through the steps to make

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sure that they're comfortable and that

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you're not hurting them , and that this

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is like smooth so that they want to

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come back because this is the best tool

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for breast cancer detection . We're big

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part of this population . And so it's

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important because , um , you know , I

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had family members that didn't catch

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breast cancer until they were already

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staged for , and thankfully , they're

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still alive . But it traveled through

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her lymphatic system , So I went from

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her breasts to her backbone to her hip .

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So now she had to get biopsies and

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pieces of bone cut out of her . And so ,

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if you can catch it and just like that

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really stage , you're only taking out

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pieces of your breast , which still

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sounds terrible . But at least you get

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your life . You know , like rather than

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leaving the earth a little bit sooner

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than you planned , my aunt is still

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finding . I mean , she's lost all her

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hair's growing back . I think she's

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been fighting it for . She's been

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fighting it for about 10 years now .

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She gets chemo , Um , makes her sick to

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her stomach . She throws up . She's

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like I said , lost her hair , is

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growing back , lost her hair again .

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She gets really tired and make things

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worse . She caught Covic during chemo .

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So this , um , specialty is really just ,

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like , sensitive to me . Um , I also

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had a co worker who was diagnosed with

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a genetic mutation . Eso braca one and

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Rocky to her mom died when she was

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really young to from breast cancer . It

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was very aggressive . She actually , um ,

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decided to get a double mastectomy at ,

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like , 20 . She's so happy with her

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decision . She's married . And so she

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was like , I wanna be here for my

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family . My mom , you know , it was

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wasn't able to live to see me have my

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family . But I want to be there to see

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my kids have their families . It helps

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me make decisions toe on why I want to

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stay in this field and maybe even

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further my skills and knowledge . So

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it's all about solidarity . Um , it's

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all about just support . This is just

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something we wanted to get back to the

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community , um , to kind of help share

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the information that most people don't

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know or that most people probably

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thought they knew and they didn't know

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the truth , their myths versus facts .

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And so this was a good way for us to

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get that information out there and then

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just have a good , you know , good old

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time , just with each other . And it's

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just nice toe get out on but the

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families to and pets , you know , this

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is just all about , you know , coming

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together and just celebrating breast

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cancer awareness and just getting all

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the information out there . I was

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diagnosed with breast cancer in

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2017 . It was the end of the summer ,

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and I was actually going to the beach

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and I was putting on sunscreen , and I

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thought I felt something . I finally

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got a mammogram and they did a biopsy

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right away . And I got the diagnosis in

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December , and by the end of December ,

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I was back in the States already . I

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underwent surgery , I had a lumpectomy ,

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and then I went through chemo for about

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six months . And then that was followed

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up by radiation . But then I had a

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I had a pet scan and everything was

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clear . So since then , thank God I've

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been healthy . Awareness is the most

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important important thing for breast

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cancer . Everybody needs to get checked

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because whether you have a history of

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it in your family or not , there was no

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history in my family . Um , you can

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still be the one and eight . So

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awareness is so important . And events

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like this are just fabulous for that .

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My advice for anybody going through it

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now is um look at me . I survived .

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Stay strong . Do what makes you happy .

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Do what makes you happy If you like .

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Thio , take walks on the beach , Try to

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take walks on the beach if you like to

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do puzzles , do puzzles , whatever it

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is that makes you happy . Do what makes

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you happy Because that helps you get

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through it . Oh , yeah .