Kim Hagerich was diagnosed with stage III breast cancer at the age of 36, when her daughters were one and three years old. Now, at the age of 50, with teenage daughters, she’s still getting used to the idea that she is a stage IV patient.

Medha Deoras-Sutliff was newly married and just 26 years old at the time of her first breast cancer diagnosis in 1993: ductal carcinoma in situ.

Paying it forward was the driving force behind Denise Barlow’s participation in a clinical trial after her breast cancer diagnosis 15 years ago, and behind her ongoing work as a patient advocate.