about us video series our stars funding resources news order         womenstories stars sonya   WomenStories Stars   Priscilla   Jessie   Louise   Patty   Nancy   Teresa   Brenda   Bertha and son   Joan and friend   Paulette and parents   Carolyn & daughter   Louise   Diane and Tom   Valerie and Bob   Elyse and Pat   Terry   Paulette   Milagros   Joan   Ginx   Bertha   Kathy   Pam   Sonya   Veronica   Paulette   Mari   Rebecca   Valerie   Dr. Thelma Hurd   Theresa   Polly   Wendy   Cheryl   Milagros   Liya   Cathy   Ivis   Patty   Babs   Elise   Terry   Ellen   Bertha   Paulette   Rebecca   Cathy   Theresa Sonya Young Women and Breast Cancer "My diagnosis was unusual because I was so young, first of all, I was only twenty-four and I had started bleeding from my nipple and when I went to my doctors they told me it was normal, it was just hormones and I didn’t believe them. After months of fighting for more testing they finally did a biopsy and realized that it was cancer but this whole process took about a year to get the actual biopsy done and then I had to have a total mastectomy by that time."