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Victoria Price’s Story
Victoria Price was 29 years old when she felt something unusual in her breast.
“My body is telling me that something’s not right,” she remembers thinking.
After weeks of appointments, scans, biopsies, and uncertainty, genetic testing later revealed that she carries the BRCA2 mutation.
“I’m grateful that I listened to my body and that I know my body,” Victoria says.
Now, Victoria uses her voice to help others feel seen, especially young Black women who may not see themselves reflected in breast cancer spaces.
Read MoreValerie David’s Story
Valerie David is known to many as The Pink Hulk.
A four-time cancer survivor over 27 years, Valerie has turned her story into a one-woman show about finding the superhero within. Earlier this year, after surgery for what doctors believed was a benign brain tumor, pathology revealed that metastatic breast cancer had been growing on the tumor.
For a while, Valerie says she lost The Pink Hulk.
But after her most recent scans came back clear, something shifted.
“The girl got her mojo back,” Valerie says.
Read MoreLaurie Turney’s Story
Laurie Turney has been shaped by breast cancer for nearly 30 years.
Her second diagnosis, this time stage IV metastatic breast cancer, was very serious.
Laurie was told she had three to five years.
Today, she is 63 and a half, feeling great, and celebrating 20 years cancer-free.
“I’m celebrating the last 20 years that we didn’t know we were going to have,” Laurie says.
Read MoreKerrianne Eldora’s Story
Kerrianne Eldora’s breast cancer diagnosis came during an already devastating season for her family.
Six weeks before Kerrianne was diagnosed, her sister received the same news. Their mother had also been diagnosed with breast cancer at age 40 and had gone through it twice.
Through it all, Kerrianne held tightly to hope.
“You have to know that things are going to work out,” she says. “You have to be as positive as you can, even when you feel like that rain cloud is overhead.”
Read MoreJennie Vargas’s Story
As a single mother diagnosed with breast cancer, Jennie’s first fear was not for herself. It was for her kids. But through treatment, Jennie found strength, faith, and a renewed commitment to her own happiness.
“I always get back up, no matter what,” she says.
Read MoreDebbie First’s Story
Debbie First was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1977 and had 13 months of a groundbreaking treatment. With three children under 12 and the support of her husband, Debbie managed a full time position as Executive Director of Action for Children’s Television. Nearly five decades later, she is cancer free and walks the Runway stage for the third time with a unique perspective on how far cancer awareness, research, treatment and support have come—giving us hope for a future with more cures and more people living with the disease.
Read MoreAndrea Myette’s Story
Andrea Myette was raised in a family where difficult things were not often talked about.
When her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, Andrea did not know right away. Years later, when Andrea received her own diagnosis, she found herself responding in a similar way: keeping it concealed.
But when her daughter, Lindsay, was diagnosed with breast cancer, something changed.
“That’s what really opened me up,” Andrea says.
Andrea has learned that there is strength in sharing and allowing others in.
“It’s much better if you reach out and join in,” she says.
Read MoreKristen Isola’s Story
After eight rounds of chemotherapy, two surgeries, and 30 rounds of radiation, Kristen is nearly one year out from finishing treatment. Now, she is stepping onto the Runway stage to show her sons something beyond the hard parts.
“This is a moment in our story,” Kristen says. “It isn’t who your mom is.”
Read MoreCassy Villalta’s Story
Cassy Villalta has spent years living with uncertainty.
After doctors found a spot on her ribs in 2022, Cassy did not know whether the cancer had spread to her bones. Because the spot could not be biopsied, she moved through each treatment and appointment without the clear answer she wanted.
Still, Cassy kept going.
“I never looked at it as a diagnosis and a death sentence,” she says. “It was kind of just like, oh, this is what I have, and we’re going to do X, Y, and Z to get through it.”
Now, after three clear CT scans, Cassy is preparing to finish monthly treatment and move to six-month check-ins.
Read MoreMaggie Corcoran Seitz’s Story
Breast cancer has shaped Maggie’s life through love, loss, and family.
Her mother passed away from breast cancer when Maggie was a young adult. At the time, there were very few people in her life who understood what it meant to lose a mother so young.
Olivia was one of them.
That shared understanding became part of what connected Maggie to Runway for Recovery.
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