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PHOENIX - A new mother was diagnosed with breast cancer at 29 – her daughter was only 11 months old.

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"She would have been 11 months old when I was diagnosed with, initially, a stage 2 diagnosis, and then I had a lumpectomy, and they tested my lymph nodes and, unfortunately, they were all cancerous ," Lindsey Dermyer said.

A stage 2 diagnosis – it had spread to her sternum.

"I was terrified. As I mentioned, my daughter was 1, and I was devastated at the prospect of leaving her so soon," said Dermyer. "It was very shocking because it all happened fast. Hearing you have stage 2 cancer as a 29-year-old is a lot. A new mom is a lot to process, and then finding it has spread and is much more serious was very emotional."

Within a couple of months, her li

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