Ashley Bell

Ashley believes she should have been diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer in 2019, but her concerns were dismissed. Two years later, after the COVID-19 pandemic, she was diagnosed with de novo metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer. A year later, it spread to her brain. She thought she’d go through treatment, and life would return to normal; but she remains in active treatment every three weeks and undergoes scans every three months. On the bright side, she has been NEAD (no evidence of active disease) for two years.

Diagnosed at 34, Ashley is now 38. She is single, has no children, and is super quiet with a big personality and an even bigger smile. She likes working behind the scenes, researching and finding new opportunities to branch out into the world of breast cancer advocacy.