Model Profiles
Meet the Models, New England: Amy Salguero
Amy Salguero was by her mother’s side when, at 80 years old, she received a breast cancer diagnosis in summer of 2023. It prompted her to push up her own mammogram out of caution. When her doctor randomly had an appointment two days later, she took it and checked screening off her list.
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“I feel strongly about telling women to be more preventive than I was”
Read MoreMeet the Models, New England: Laura Bosse
“You hear stage four and you think ugh, but it doesn’t have to be.”
Read MoreMeet the Models, New England: Jenessa Dailey
She is quick to note how lucky she was to benefit from the massive improvements science has made in treatment. Indeed, instead of traditional chemo, Janessa qualified for a trial, a collaboration between MGH and Dana Farber, that involved intensely aggressive immunotherapy treatments
Read MoreMeet the Models, New England: Siobhan Donovan
“There will come a day when I am no here anymore and its important to me that when my children look back at me in photos/videos, they associate me with things that make them proud and through that they know me.”
Read MoreMeet the Models, New England: Kelly Willwerth
“So what if I look like I have been through war under my clothes? I am still here.”
Read MoreIn Memory of New England Model, Sarah Wilfert
“You are giving your body to medicine – with a lot of time and sacrifice- to hopefully help you, but also women in the future.”
Read MoreMeet the Models, New England: Deanna Potsis
“It makes you realize your life could be taken from you. I can either sit down and let this disease control me or I can find ways to become healthier and beat this. Doctors said I would be lucky if they could rid me of 50% of the cancer and that just ticked something off in me and I thought, bet.”
Read MoreMeet the Models, New England: Deborah Williams
“I cringe when people say- put up a good fight or battle. I am not at war or fighting with anyone. I am in conversation with my cancer.”
Read MoreMeet the Models, New England: Christina Muratore
“there is a lot of sadness, but there is also so much hope and happiness. It’s ok to have both and important to not exist in this bubble where nothing bad ever happens.”
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