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NORTH CAROLINA ( WXII ) -- In 2025, more than 300,000 women will hear for the first time the words, "You have breast cancer," according to the American Cancer Society.

A North Carolina woman received that diagnosis at the young age of 28, forever changing her life.

Lorelei Colbert is a military spouse and needed a health exam to move abroad. In that exam, a lump was found in her breast, and she was diagnosed with stage 2B triple-negative breast cancer.

"That was five years ago. I had eight rounds of chemo, bilateral mastectomy the day after my 29th b-day, and reconstruction," Colbert said. "I had four rounds of Lupron, which are shots, hoping one day I could have a family. A few years later, I had my miracle baby post-cancer."

Ever since, Colbert

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