TARRANT COUNTY, Texas — Every time Katheryn Stephenson takes a seat, she takes back a piece of her strength.

“I’m scared excited if that makes sense,” she said — a feeling born from a year filled with fear, grit, and determination.

Just twelve months earlier, Katheryn and her husband Greg sat down for news no one wants to hear.

“It’s a bummer. There’s no shortcuts. It is a bummer. This is a bummer,” her husband Greg told WFAA after doctors diagnosed her with invasive ductal carcinoma — the most common form of breast cancer. She’d had a clean scan the year before.

"Katheryn has been very spirited even when she's not having good days," said medical oncologist Dr. Doug Gibson, along with surgery oncologist Dr. Ariel Gallaty.

Before Katheryn ever felt the cancer, she felt chemotherapy’s t

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