KILLEEN, Texas — When Shewanna Strickland went in for a routine mammogram in April 2024, just after turning 50, she never imagined the journey that lay ahead. What started as a concerning spot on her breast would become a battle for her life against one of the most aggressive forms of breast cancer.

"I was really in shock, because I was like… me?" Strickland recalls.

The initial diagnosis came on June 14th: stage 2 breast cancer. But it wasn't just any breast cancer—it was triple negative breast cancer, the same aggressive form that had affected her mother.

Triple negative breast cancer is a lesser-known but particularly aggressive variant of the disease. Dr. Mohit Bansal of Baylor Scott & White, who treated both Strickland and her mother, explains what makes it different.

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