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It was a conversation with her youngest daughter that mobilized Vickie Race, a Los Angeles mother of four.
“Michelle was talking to me about her future, and she said, ‘When I get breast cancer … .’” The girl was only twelve.
“She said it as if it was inevitable,” Vickie recalls. “I understood why. In 2000, my sister was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a mastectomy. In 2002, the same thing happened with my mother. Two years later, it was me. So Michelle figured her turn would eventually come.
“At that point, I realized that I could no longer be a victim. I needed to do something.”
Vickie’s Story. She noticed the larger lump on her breast one April morning in 2004, as she was getting ready for work. Anxiously, she kept checking it over the next several days, hoping the problem was all in her imagination. But the doctor’s…
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