WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Two sisters, two diagnoses, and a bond that has only grown stronger through the fight of their lives.

Kate and Elizabeth Singletary from Winston-Salem both faced breast cancer at the same time. They are two of a set of triplets.

“I just noticed something felt not normal in my breast and kind of was feeling around, and I was like, hmm this seems odd, and it was a pretty big lump,” Kate said.

For Kate, a 27-year-old med-school student, the initial shock of the diagnosis was overwhelming.

“When they initially told me that they thought it was cancer, I kind of went numb,” Kate said. “I kept nodding my head as the radiologist was talking, and I kind of blacked out what he said.”

Genetic testing revealed Kate carried a gene mutation that increases her risk for bilate

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