The Brief

PHOENIX - For Valley mother and grandmother Robin Chesbro, the statistic that nearly 1 in 8 women will receive a breast cancer diagnosis became a triple reality over three decades.

The backstory:

Chesbro, a certified scuba instructor, golfer and author, received her first diagnosis in 2004. It returned a decade later, and just before the holidays in 2024, she was diagnosed a third time.

"I was definitely shocked. I got the news three days before Thanksgiving, and I was expecting 20 people for dinner," Chesbro said.

She immediately made the decision to undergo a double mastectomy to ensure she would have "the long, full life that I wanted to enjoy with my beautiful daughters, grandchildren."

Dig deeper:

Her oncologist, Dr. Brittany Murphy, a breast surgical oncologist at

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