"I never imagined I would be facing cancer in my early thirties. I will never forget the moment I heard the words 'unfortunately, we did find cancerous cells'."

Starting in 2023, when she was just 29, Claire Meitinger began to notice some unusual symptoms. It started with a lump in her right breast which was examined but an ultrasound showed nothing. She was told it was just dense breast tissue.

She was in her late twenties, and had no family history of breast cancer, so Meitinger, of Richmond, Virginia, was told it was nothing to worry about. However, in the months that followed, she told Newsweek that the lump became "very painful" and her concerns only mounted.

"Leading up to my 30th birthday, the pain only got worse, and at the end of the year I went back for another breast exam a

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