A Valley grandmother said she never imagined a routine check-up would turn into a fight for her life.

In May 2023, Diana Salinas went in for her yearly mammogram — something she said she never missed.

But when doctors told her to get a sonogram, Salinas said she waited.

“I just said, ‘I'll go later,’ so I put it aside,” Salinas said.

Four months later, Salinas got the sonogram, and then a biopsy.

“I went on vacation, went for the biopsy after I got back and still didn't think anything of it,” Salinas recalled. “And then I received a call a week after."

That call marked the start of her battle against HR-positive, HER2-negative Stage 3 breast cancer. She was 64-years-old at the time.

“I didn't know what to think, how to react, because you hear it often — people getting breast cancer

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