Kim Kubly knew it was coming.
Breast cancer ran in her family. Two of her aunts had had the disease, and her sister had died of breast cancer in 2006.
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Kim Kubly knew it was coming.
Breast cancer ran in her family. Two of her aunts had had the disease, and her sister had died of breast cancer in 2006.
But when she felt a lump in her breast during a self examination, which a doctor then confirmed was cancer, she was still devastated.
“But my whole view of it was, ‘OK, now let’s beat it,’” she said during a recent interview at the SwedishAmerican clinic in Davis Junction, where she lives and works. “It was all gung-ho from there.”
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and it has been seven years since Kubly was diagnosed with it. But she has been aware of the deadly disease much longer.
Her sister was diagnosed when she was not quite 25 years old. Kubly said her sister fought hard, but lost her battle after nearly 10 years.
Because her sister was so young, Kubly too began getting mammograms at a young age. She also began doing self-breast examinations, which is how she found a lump. She was diagnosed when she was 39.