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Cancer has been unfortunately in my life. My mom's best friend is kicking ass in her battle with breast cancer. Both of my grandmas had cancer. I recently lost a friend to cancer.

I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.

My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 13 and it was something we weren't really aware of as a family.

I lost my mom to breast cancer about three years ago, and it has changed me forever.

My father passed from cancer in 2000; his brother died of cancer before that. My grandfather died of cancer.

I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.

My two grandmothers both died of cancer, so I understand how painful and difficult this disease is on the entire family. My first grandmother passed away from bone cancer when I was about 10. It was really horrible. I remember the whole process like it was yesterday.

People used to say everyone knows someone who's had breast cancer. In the past few weeks, I've learned something else: Everyone has someone close to them who has had breast cancer.

My mother has had breast cancer twice. And my mother has always been this very positive human being: a glass-half-full type. Like, when she was in treatment and feeling really bad, she would always talk about some nurse that was particularly nice to her.

I'm a huge breast cancer awareness advocate because my mom went through breast cancer recently. It really brought our family closer.