breast cancer awareness

A light to encourage others

Get a mammogram. That’s the advice that Dawn Powell, 53, would give to women. She was diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer in 2016, a year that was difficult for Powell for others reasons as well. She was going through a divorce and started taking care of her father, who had Alzheimer’s.

Survivor says listen to your body

“You can own this, or it can own you.” Those are the words breast cancer survivor Cynthia Frame heard from her husband when she received her positive diagnosis in December 2015. For Frame, 55, her diagnosis came after a lump she had found during a self-exam had changed.