SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) - After battling breast cancer, nurse Amanda Meyer helps guide patients through their cancer journey. She was an ER nurse for 10 years, and after recovery, she became a navigation nurse.

"It can be very uncomfortable, a mammogram, but it also can detect and save your life," Meyer said.

After a routine mammogram, Meyer learned she had breast cancer. Diagnosed at stage zero, she underwent two lumpectomies and one month of preventative radiation. Strength—Meyer said she gets it from her mother. The same day she found out, she wiped her tears and went to work her shift.

"I felt like I could do it and work after, but I got exhausted. That's when I really broke down during my treatment, you look at your body and you're like ok, this hurts, it's ugly," Meyer said.

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