When Juliette Landgrave of Mission Viejo, California, found a lump in her breast in the shower, she thought it could be a cyst. After all, she was only 38. She wanted to be sure and got a mammogram. She was shocked by the results: she had two malignant masses in her breast and was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer, (TNBC) which occurs more often in younger women and in African American women and tends to be more aggressive.
Given her age and the fact that she has always wanted children, Landgrave, 40, underwent fertility treatments to preserve her eggs before starting chemotherapy. She underwent surgery, reconstruction, radiation therapy and immunotherapy, and she is cancer-free today. “People would tell me I’m too young to have cancer. And obviously, cancer doesn’t care about your age.”
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