Mommy Me and Cancer A Reflection from the Child of a Breast Cancer Survivor

By: Michelle Lawrence, MPH
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Mommy, Me, and Cancer: A Reflection from the Child of a Breast Cancer Survivor

"Hi sweetie, I have something very important to tell you." Although I was only 8 years old, I could tell that my mother’s kind tone was only a gentle precursor for what she was about to say. She gazed at me with a sincere face and tears in her eyes as she explained to me that she had been diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer. She said that our lives would be quite different for a while. My mother, at the time, was 38 years old.

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Young women with breast cancer face unique issues. And in the South, there are more young women overall facing breast cancer. In Louisiana, young African-American women are significantly more likely to suffer from breast cancer.

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