Model vows to prove you can still be ‘sexy’ after double mastectomy

Jade Power was 27 when she received the news that she is a carrier of a rare genetic mutation called PALB2, meaning there was a 71 per cent chance of her developing breast cancer. Source: Model vows to prove you can still be ‘sexy’ after double mastectomy

Westbrooke teacher shares cancer journey

Kristy Wilkinson was diagnosed with breast cancer one year ago and is in remission after 12 months of treatment — but she’s currently battling high medical bills. Source: Westbrooke teacher shares cancer journey

Forward Together: Staying Close during a Breast Cancer Battle

Carmen Watson has spent her career as a surgical technologist, assisting surgeons in operating rooms, where the work is hard, and the stakes are high. Watson, who has spent most of her career at Duke Source: Forward Together: Staying Close during a Breast Cancer Battle

Friends rally around Vernon woman and her breast cancer battle

Friends are rallying around a Vernon woman battling breast cancer. riends are rallying around a Vernon woman battling breast cancer. A ‘Beef, Buns and Beer for Breast Cancer’ event will benefit Tania Hollingsworth, who was diagnosed with Stage 3 invasive ductal carcinoma that spread to her lymph nodes a year and a half ago. “The…

Pauline promotes fitness to help breast cancer charities

A former Big Brother contestant and artist is spearheading a series of fitness events to raise awareness of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Pauline Bennett, who appeared on series 15 of the show in 2014, has been putting on a series of free fitness classes at gyms across her home city of Wolverhampton and the surrounding…

Breast cancer diagnosis motivates Tampa Bay woman to start magazine

One year after Bridgette Bello was diagnosed with breast cancer she published her first edition of Tampa Bay Business & Wealth, which was recognized this year by the United States Chamber of Commerce. ST. PETE, Fla. — October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and there is a woman in St. Pete who not only survived her diagnosis…

Breast Cancer Survivor Keeps Collecting Yesterdays

“My life changed on a dime with a picture,” Ms. Merens said. “I had a triple negative, very aggressive form of breast cancer.” The Boca Raton resident got the news on Nov. 16, 2011, at Lynn Women’s Health and Wellness Institute, part of Baptist Health, where a nurse navigator told her she would be with her…

Breast cancer survivors share message at Greensboro fundraiser walk

GREENSBORO, N.C. — It was a sea of pink and more than 500 people that took over Country Park in Greensboro for the annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk. The American Cancer Society says this year’s donations well surpassed last year’s totals. The community helped raise more than $93,000, and ACS said the goal…

Going through breast cancer – I will walk with you

On Dec. 23 of 2021, I was on the phone with a young colleague. I had just had a routine mammogram. I expected a letter saying that I was good to go until next year. But I saw the film in the room. I saw the array of calcifications, and I knew something was different….