Stefanie was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer at the age of 30. Both of us were told we were too young to have breast cancer and like myself, her lump was found by her boyfriend.
From her website:
The Stefanie LaRue Advocacy Movement boldly educates young women in their teens, twenties and thirties that they too can get breast cancer even with no family history. Younger women are often misdiagnosed because they are told they are "too young and don't fit the profile". A delay in correctly diagnosing the cancer often allows the disease to progress to a later, more critical stage. Since the type of breast cancer that typically occurs in younger women is particularly aggressive, treatment can be more severe and less effective. Many times the prognosis is terminal. Young women are dying needlessly who might otherwise have survived, given early detection and proper diagnoses.
You can also read more about her story here.
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Posted by: stefanie | Monday, August 23, 2010 at 02:48 PM