Iremember the moment everything changed. It started with something so small, a strange sensation in my armpit. My husband thought it was just a pulled muscle, and I was happy to believe him. It’s funny how we sometimes choose reassurance over reality.

When the conversation came up again at a family gathering, my sister-in-law, a breast surgeon, offered to take a quick look. Within seconds, her face changed. “Call your gynecologist first thing tomorrow,” she said. Her urgency was terrifying, but I decided to cling to the denial that it couldn’t be anything like breast cancer. After all, I had no family history! It had to be a cyst, right?

Wrong. I was sent for imaging at Atlantic Health's Carol W. and Julius A. Rippel Breast Center in New Jersey, where results revealed a new reality and n

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