SPOKANE, Wash. — A local breast cancer survivor is sharing her story of resilience and raising awareness about the importance of early detection and never skipping a mammogram.

Two years ago, Deanna Hawley joined the roughly 300,000 women in the United States diagnosed with breast cancer annually. In her case, the cancer was metaplastic carcinoma, an extremely rare form of the disease that was caught early enough to make remission possible.

"If I had skipped that mammogram and decided, 'oh I'll put it off for six months,' I would have been in a completely different situation," Hawley said.

Her September 2023 diagnosis came after Hawley kept a promise she made to herself in her friend's memory.

"I had a friend who was diagnosed and died within a year of her diagnosis. So, I kind of made

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