TAMPA, Fla. - AdventHealth Carollwood's Chief Nursing Officer Jill Mendez is using her experience to help encourage and educate her staff to get their yearly mammograms, something that likely saved her life.

The backstory:

When you or someone you know and love is diagnosed with cancer , it can be a blur.

"So many things go through your mind, your world falls apart," Jill Mendez explained.

When she went in for her routine mammogram last year, she thought nothing of it.

She said, "I have a big family, lots of cousins, second, third generations, and no one in my family has breast cancer."

Then came the diagnosis and the thoughts running through her mind.

"I remember my husband getting here and my doctors telling us talking about chemo, port placement and oncology visits," Mendez re

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