Cancerwise

Gladys Gakuu was diagnosed with stage 2B breast cancer in 2012. She was 29. She had a mastectomy with breast reconstruction surgery, followed by chemotherapy and five years of hormone therapy.

Things were fine for several years until she began having chest pain on her right side. She saw a local doctor in Kansas City, but imaging didn’t show anything concerning. So, she chalked it up to working too hard and took pain medicine as...