It was during spring break, almost six months after Paige Bozosi got married to the love of her life, that she first noticed a lump in her left breast.

After getting checked, Bozosi, 23, later got the devastating news that she had invasive ductal carcinoma, an invasive form of breast cancer.

According to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, about 9% of all new breast cancer cases in the U.S. are diagnosed in women younger than 45 years old.

“My grandma was 24 and my aunt was 32 and then my mother got tested for the braca gene, and she was negative. So we kind of didn’t think that I would have to worry about anything, because she wasn’t able to pass that on to me,” Bozosi said. “Thankfully, everything moved super, super, super fast. And so my diagnosis date was April 1, and my surgery

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