Early in the morning, Emily Roehr arrived at the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at Texas Health Huguley Hospital in Fort Worth.

“I’m a little nervous,” Roehr confided to her nurse as she took bloodwork for Roehr’s second chemotherapy treatment. “It was probably one of the scariest moments of my life finding out that I have cancer.”

At 35 years old, the mother of two is younger than the recommended age of 40 years old to start mammograms.

“I feel like there’s a lot of women that don’t know now how many younger women are getting it,” Roehr said.

Roehr was diagnosed in August with stage 3 breast cancer. She was uninsured, and referred to the Fort Worth-based nonprofit Careity Foundation, which helps uninsured and underinsured women navigate the system.

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