AMSTERDAM, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- According to the American Cancer Society, approximately one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. While older women are more likely to be diagnosed, diagnoses for young women in their thirties are on the rise. Further, they are more likely to be diagnosed at an advanced stage because routine screening isn't recommended in that age group. For thirty-one-year old Amsterdam resident, Kaylia Blowers, this was never a battle she envisioned herself fighting.

“I was thirty at the time that I found my lump, and I was not doing regular self-breast exams because I did not think that there would be cancer" Blowers explained. "When I first got the malignancy news, I was very emotional and scared. I thought I was going to wake up from a bad

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