As told to Erica RimlingerSix months into my first pregnancy, I felt a lump in my breast and brought it up at my doctor’s appointment. “Oh, that’s normal,” my OB-GYN said. “That happens when you’re pregnant.”Three years later, in 2022, I sat in a hospital gown looking at a PET scan of my body. Each patch of light on the black background showed where cancer had taken residence. The scan was lit up like the Las Vegas strip at night.That lump was not “normal.” It was HER2-positive breast cancer, and by the time it was discovered three years later, it had spread everywhere.As shocking as that imag...
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