AUSTIN (KXAN) — Felicia Reed was in the middle of building her dream photography studio when she received a call that changed everything.

It was December 2021, and she had just found the perfect space for her new business. The building was hers and although it was empty, it was the perfect page to start the next chapter in her career.

The diagnosis

Then came the diagnosis. Reed received the call following a routine mammogram screening, delivering the news that she had been diagnosed with triple-positive invasive ductal carcinoma, breast cancer.

“My mom had died of breast cancer at the age of 40. When I was 18, my sister died at 38. So from the age of 30 I was still having mammograms. And then so at that time in 21, I was 45 and I was just having my annual mammograms, and they found the

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