Diagnosed With Breast Cancer at 26

Being diagnosed with breast cancer at any age is frightening and unexpected. But if you’re diagnosed in your 20s – before any type of screening starts – you face different challenges than if you’re diagnosed later in life. LaShae Rolle, who studies cancer disparities, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2023 at age 26. When she found a lump in her breast she wasn’t concerned because no one in her family had ever had breast cancer. But a mammogram and ultrasound found at least eight cancer tumors in different quadrants of her breast. Listen to the episode to hear LaShae explain: why she decided to have a check-up after she found the lump how powerlifting helped ease some side effects how her diagnosis changed the focus of her research her advice to other people who are too young to start cancer screening