From diagnosis and recovery to raising awareness, these stars have been using their platform to share their experiences with breast cancer in hopes of helping others.
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00:00 There's very few people I've met who haven't been affected by breast cancer in some way.
00:03 When I first came out about my breast cancer, I really didn't want to talk about it, but
00:06 I had to.
00:07 You're keenly aware of how precious life is, and I certainly am now.
00:19 I went through my cancer the way I wanted to, which is, I'm not the doctor, my job is
00:27 to be calm and not stressed, and let the top surgeons and oncologists do their thing.
00:50 These catastrophic events in your life really define you.
00:53 For me, I think it sort of changed the way that I look at my life.
01:17 My activism came out of this, it wasn't even about me, it was like, "Whoa, wait, you're
01:21 telling me that women are not even opting for this because it's too expensive?"
01:25 Oh, no, no, no, it just saved my life.
01:27 You know, MRI saved my life.
01:28 Had I waited for my mammogram, I would be dead right now.
01:51 I think everyone has a personal story to tell about cancer, and that's why I think we're
01:55 all so motivated to try to do something about it.
01:58 I
02:25 got diagnosed with cancer, and I powered through it, and I came out the other side.
02:30 I'm grateful for all of it.
02:47 Cancer's very personal, and I think that in sharing how personal it was to me and what
02:54 I was going through, it allowed so many others to share their personal journey with it as
03:01 well.
03:02 When I became ill, I was diagnosed with cancer in the early stages of my life.
03:30 When I became ill, and I did become the story because I thought this was a way to be able
03:37 to have a teachable moment, to show people what it's like to have cancer, to live with
03:41 cancer, to work with cancer.
03:43 I am a breast cancer survivor, and I'm healthy today, and I have a lot of joy.
04:13 I had an aunt who I lost to breast cancer, and I have a lot of friends who are survivors,
04:18 and I believe that it takes a village.
04:40 I was very lucky, but cancer is cancer.
05:03 Hearing the word cancer is so scary, but it's not a death sentence.
05:06 You catch it early, you can get rid of it and live a great life.
05:13 It's through research that we're going to put an end to breast cancer.
05:34 We won't stop until it has ended, until we live in a breast cancer-free world.
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