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By Sheila McGlown, as told to Jo Cavallo  / September 10, 2021

Cancer Is Trying to Steal My Body, but I Will Not Allow It to Steal My Joy

Until I was diagnosed with HER2-positive, estrogen receptor–positive/progesterone receptor–positive de novo metastatic breast cancer in 2009, I didn’t realize that Black women could get the disease. Although my mother died of metastatic breast cancer 5 years earlier when she was 65, she was the...