WILSON, N.C. (WTVD) -- You wouldn't know it if she didn't tell you, but Saptosa Foster has been a silent warrior over the past year. She's been battling a disease that didn't run in her family.

" Breast cancer looks like me. I never thought I'd ever say that because I had never had any chronic illnesses growing up, said Saptosa Foster. "I'm a person who finds it difficult to ask for help. I'm the strong friend."

Foster, 49, has always been consistent with mammograms . Doctors at the Wilson Medical Center identified the stage 1 tumor in April of 2024 after she said she had no signs that she was living with breast cancer.

"This was not a tumor you could feel. It was the size of a pencil eraser. I do self-breast exams," she said.

Foster had a lumpectomy in June of 2024. While in reco

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