Profiles
In this section, Living Beyond Breast Cancer brings you the stories of young women affected by breast cancer as well as those of family members, friends and caregivers. Learn how they faced the complex medical, psychosocial, emotional, legal and financial challenges of the disease.
Finding New Purpose: Chien-Chi Huang
Feeling isolated from cultural support during her breast cancer experience, a young woman starts a group to educate and help Asian-American women.
Support and Connections Help in a Long Year: Cicely Crews
Advice heard on a popular TV show enables a young woman to discover triple-negative breast cancer.
Too Young for Breast Cancer?: Adrienne Harlow
A 19-year-old woman perseveres to get a correct diagnosis despite skepticism from healthcare providers.
Paying It Forward: Scarlett Gibbs
In 1990, a young woman is told inflammatory breast cancer will take her life in less than a year. Twenty-two years later, she is an active advocate in the breast cancer community.
Adoption After Metastatic Diagnosis: Stephanie Norris Drum
After breast cancer diagnosis, treatment, a recurrence and more treatment, a young woman achieves much hoped-for motherhood through adoption.
Faith and Healing: Nickia Walker
A young mother diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer finds strength in God and creativity.
Money Troubles Stall Reconstruction: Lynn Michael
Because she cannot afford to pay the balance of her plastic surgery bill, a young woman's reconstruction is halted with the expanders in place but the process unfinished.
Strength After the Unexpected Happens: Westray Corradine
A young mother decides how to handle information, talk with her children and find nutritional support after a metastatic breast cancer diagnosis.
Pregnant at Diagnosis: Karen Ortiz
Discovering she's pregnant at the same time she receives a breast cancer diagnosis, a young woman makes decisions, finds strength and faces challenges.
Facing Down Family History: Katie Hartline
Even with early screenings because her mother was diagnosed at 31, a young woman contends with her own breast cancer diagnosis and the genetic factor she and her sisters share.
Coming Full Circle: A Young Woman’s Journey
A young African-American woman shares her journey after a diagnosis of triple-negative breast cancer.
Living with Purpose: Sarita Jordan
A young African-American woman with breast cancer shares how she made decisions, dealt with side effects and coped with emotions and unexpected plans. Volunteering for Living Beyond Breast Cancer helped Sarita to move forward.
From Cancer to ‘Miracle’: Lisa Sanchez Dittmer
Learn how one young woman with breast cancer made treatment decisions, found support, addressed fertility worries and moved forward after diagnosis and treatment.
Finding a Friend: Emily Scattergood
A young woman with breast cancer discusses how she tackled treatment, found support and changed her outlook by discovering a “new normal.”
