My breast cancer experience began when I was twelve old. My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer and passed away when she was forty, September 26, 1968. She had two separate mastectomies with no reconstruction along with chemotherapy and radiation treatments. I knew there was a strong family history of breast cancer on both sides of my family - my mother's sister passed from breast cancer by age fifty, an aunt and a cousin on my father's side also had breast cancer. I beli