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“In September of 2024 I was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer,” shared Rachel Albin.

Albin is mother of two awesome girls, a wife to her husband, and she runs her family insurance company which her great grandmother started in Nixa. She’s busy to say the least, and the last thing she had time for was a battle with breast cancer.

“It’s something that’s really hard to go through,” shared Albin.

Triple negative breast cancer is known for being aggressive and it can come back easily. Today, Albin continues healing after five-months of chemo therapy, having a double mastectomy and reconstruction surgery. It’s been a difficult journey.

She discovered her diagnosis by doing som

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