Breast Cancer in my 30’s
Alicia’s Story
Alicia Fisher’s breast cancer journey has been marked by both unimaginable hardship and profound personal growth. Diagnosed for the first time at age 34, she found the lump herself and learned the news on New Year’s Eve in 2020—a brutal ending to an already difficult year.
Read MoreShannon’s Story
When Shannon Bernhart received her diagnosis of invasive ductal carcinoma on September 2, 2022, she was in the midst of planning for a joyful chapter in her life—she had just received the green light to pursue embryo adoption. The news of her cancer hit hard and fast, clouding a moment that was meant to be filled with hope and possibility. “I was pretty numb at first,” she recalls. “And then I got angry. It took time to digest it all.”
Read MoreLauren’s Story
On April 7, 2022, at 10:51am, Lauren Yerkes received the call that would change her life. She was preparing for a work meeting when the radiologist told her she had invasive ductal carcinoma. “I remember only hearing the word ‘carcinoma’—I knew what that meant,” she recalls. Overcome with fear and confusion, she rushed to find her husband and handed him the phone. The two stood in their kitchen, hugging and crying, before beginning the painful process of sharing the news with loved ones.
Read MoreMeet the Models: Melissa Dupuis
When Melissa Dupuis heard the words “you have cancer,” her world closed in. It was January 5th, 2022 at 4:00 p.m., and the diagnosis came through her online patient portal. As she sat on the couch and read the results, her one-year-old daughter was calling from the other room. Paralyzed by fear, Melissa turned to her husband and asked the only question she could manage: “Am I going to die?”
Read MoreKathryn & Savannah’s Story 2025
Director of Program & Completed Treatment and Legacy Model
Read MoreMeet the Models: Angelina Hawley-Dolan
Angelina is a mother, a wife, a teacher, a daughter, a friend—and now, a survivor. Her story begins not with a diagnosis, but in the quiet rhythm of everyday life: nursing her youngest child, juggling motherhood and her role as director of a Montessori school, and living fully at just 32 years old. Cancer wasn’t on her radar.
Read MoreMeet the Models: Melanie Randall
Melanie wasn’t shocked when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Her body had been signaling that something was wrong for quite some time.
“I was actually a bit relieved to finally have an answer. I could feel something was off—and now I knew what it was. Now I could do something about it.”
Read MoreMeet the Models: Rebecca Whitehead
I am a breast cancer survivor. I was diagnosed while living in Hawaii at age 30. My partner and I made the decision to move back to the east coast for my treatment to be closer to family and to have access to higher quality medical care and clinical trials. What makes this year special? In February I celebrated 5 years of remission!
Read MoreMeet the Models: Caroline Saba
I have no history of BC in my family. I had just finished my 15-month breastfeeding journey with my only son and was planning to have a second when I found the lump. It was a very aggressive HER2+ mainly driven cancer. I will never forget reading my diagnostics imaging – BIRADS 5. And all of a sudden, I wasn’t the typical young mom anymore. I was a cancer patient. I lost my hair, my boobs but I am still here.
Read MoreMeet the Models: Sarah Hickey
Cancer didn’t just change my life—it reshaped it entirely. I was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive breast cancer (primary angiosarcoma of the breast) in 2020, and today, I’m living with stage 4 metastatic disease. I had a unilateral mastectomy and chose to remain flat on one side without a prosthetic. That decision wasn’t about loss—it was about truth. This is my body now, and I’ve learned to love it not in spite of the changes, but because of them.
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