Aesthetic Flat Closure and Flat Denial

By Kim BowlesPresident & Founder, NotPuttingonaShirt.org Every year, 250,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States. Despite the prevailing narrative that breast cancer is a disease of older women, roughly 15% of those diagnoses are under age 40. I was 35 years old and nursing my second baby when I was diagnosed.I felt like I had entered a nightmare world and might never wake up.And I was one of the lucky ones - 10% of all breast cancer diagnoses are what
The trauma of making peace with your surgical decision, only to wake up to something completely different, is hard to describe. Read Kim's story now.

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