When I was 15, I lost my first aunt to breast cancer. She was diagnosed on October 2, 1992 and fought so hard. She received a stem cell transplant back in the days when it was a relatively new treatment option and eventually went into remission. But it came back with a vengeance and spread to her spinal column and brain and after this second battle with cancer, she passed away exactly two years to the date of her original diagnosis on October 2, 1994.
