Breast cancer affects everyone differently, but the struggles and challenges this community experiences are real. We’re talking openly and honestly about just how difficult a diagnosis, treatment and living with metastatic breast cancer can be.

Yakima and Lexi are here today to share more of their personal breast cancer stories and how that led them to working for Susan G. Komen. They are also featured in Komen’s new “Don’t Fail The Girls” campaign, which just launched and seeks to make ending breast cancer deaths urgent and front and center for a younger generation.

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Real Talk: Breast Cancer Brought Me To KomenOctober 19, 2026
Today’s guest, Lily Cabezon, is a senior physician assistant in urologic oncology. After becoming very sick with COVID in 2020 and losing significant weight, Lily discovered a lump in her breast. Her mammogram revealed a mass that led to a Stage 1 diagnosis. Before beginning chemotherapy, staging scans revealed that the cancer had metastasized to her spine. She went on to undergo chemotherapy, spine treatment, a year of immunotherapy, and a bilateral mastectomy with extensive reconstruction.

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From Treating Cancer to Living with It: An MBC StoryOctober 12, 2026
What if a simple at-home DNA test changed the entire course of your life?

At 28 years old, today’s guest received a call that revealed she had a high probability of carrying the BRCA1 gene mutation. Genetic testing confirmed it, and suddenly, her family's history of cancer took on a deeply personal meaning. Her aunt, who also carried the mutation, was dying of ovarian cancer at the time. This pushed Margot Casino to make a series of decisions to protect her family's future including undergoing preventive surgeries and IVF with genetic screening. While in the process of taking steps to reduce her risk, Margot was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer at just 31 years old. As a wife and a mother to two young boys, she’d already been doing everything she believed she could to protect herself from breast cancer, yet she still heard those dreaded words.

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I Was Doing Everything I Was Supposed to DoOctober 5, 2026

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