"Too Young for a Mammogram": Philecia La'Bounty

Philecia La'Bounty said that at 29-years-old, she never thought she'd be diagnosed with cancer. "Even when I was diagnosed, it was really hard to process because I had no other symptoms. I had clean bloodwork," she said. After discovering the lump in her breast, she went to a free clinic in to have it checked out. La'Bounty said she was told it was just a benign cyst. When she asked for a mammogram, the doctor submitted her request, but it was denied because of her young age and the fact that she did not have a family history of cancer. After much persistence, Philecia had 8 biopsies and was eventually diagnosed with Stage 4 Ductile Carcinoma in Situ (DCIS) that had spread to her lungs, lymph nodes and sternum. La'Bounty said she will likely be on chemotherapy drugs for the rest of her life.

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