00:00Action! Cancer doesn't discriminate based on age or even gender. It can happen to
00:06anyone at any time. Metastatic breast cancer means that the breast cancer has
00:15spread beyond the breast. It is now out in your body. It could be in your organs, it
00:18can be in your bones, and it means that it is now a terminal illness and that
00:23they have no cure. When you're metastatic, it never goes away. You are in permanent
00:28treatment. I did the typical chemo. I was told I had a 97% cure rate. After
00:37thinking I did everything right, I still ended up with metastatic diagnosis. I
00:42wasn't really told much about how early stage can progress to stage 4 or end
00:50stage breast cancer. I had 16 years of mammograms that never showed anything. I
00:57had a different kind of breast cancer called lobular breast cancer, evasive
01:01lobular breast cancer, which doesn't show up on mammograms or scans because it's
01:08filmy. I went in February of 2015 because I found a lump and they said, well, you're 18,
01:16you're too young to get breast cancer, and they sent me home.
01:25Cancerland is a group of women with breast cancer helping women with breast
01:29cancer. You have to be aware of the truth. So you can't be aware of these poor bald
01:35women who ran a 5k race and they lived on and they were smiling and they're done.
01:43I think it's important for me, at least, to be able to talk candidly about cancer and
01:49not have to sugarcoat things. The fact is, well, those pink M&Ms, they're not helping
01:56find a cure.
02:02When I lost my hair, people would say to me, oh, it's just hair, it'll grow back. You don't
02:07get it. You know, oh, you have breast cancer where you get a new set of breasts and then
02:11you move on with your life. Well, it's just not that simple.
02:13I also lost the ability to have children and to have my own family.
02:27We need a cure because we're dying and I'm dying for a cure.
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