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Whole Health Series:
Mental Health & Breast Care

Maimah Karmo shares how embracing mental health is key to true healing.

Whole Health Series:
Guide for Fertility & Preservation

Maimah Karmo shares her story of fertility and hope after cancer.

Whole Health Series:
Navigating the Stages of Healing in Survivorship

Survivorship isn’t the end of the story—it’s the beginning of a new one.

it rolls off the tongue…

By 35 and a half, I became an ANGEL advocate for the Tigerlily Foundation because I believe in their mission to educate, advocate for, empower, and support young women, before, during and after breast cancer, and their vision we seeking to educate and empower women of all backgrounds, including those at heightened risk, those facing health disparities, and those with less access to care. (tigerlilyfoundation.org) It rolls off the tongue.

Pandemic Chemo

Chemotherapy for 12 weeks, once a week. Three months of treatment to save my life. I told myself that I carried twins for 9 months and was sick for the entire time. This would be a piece of cake.

Cervical Cancer Story: Sam McKinnon

Sam McKinnon’s life prior to her diagnosis is one that most would describe as normal. She
worked for years as a nuclear medicine technician in the diagnostic imaging wing of her
hospital. She’s married with a four-year-old son and lives in a rural part of Canada.

That Voice In My Head May Have Saved My Life

Basketball, dance, work, it never stopped. I am a 31-year old single mother to 11-year old twins. It was business as usual until February 2020, when I felt a hard lump in my left breast.

The importance of being in tune with your body, my body was sending signals and it was my Apple watch that helped me make the connection.

In January 2019, I learned I carried a BRCA2 gene mutation and then on January 28, 2020, I found out I had breast cancer. I was preparing myself to have a preventative bi-lateral mastectomy hoping to never have to hear those words.

Hair Journey

By Jamelle Singleton At the age of 33 years old I was diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer and I lost my hair due to four months of chemotherapy treatment. […]