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PHOENIX - "It started in 2018. I got a call," Melissa Lawson said. "They found a lump in my breast. A nice huge one. It didn't start small. It was 3.2 cm. I can tell you that much."

It was in February that year when Lawson was given the news she never expected because just months earlier, in August 2017, her mammogram was clear.

At her first appointment with a new doctor, she knew something wasn't right.

"I thank God I went to go see her when I went into the visit," she said. "I never met her before. She physically rubbed on that lump and said, ‘Can I do a surgical biopsy on you?’"

Lawson said yes.

"From that surgical biopsy, that’s what I learned. I had cancer ," she said.

It was triple positive breast cancer at the age of 43.

"It was crazy," said Melissa. "I was l

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