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Living Beyond Breast Cancer Young Advocate Program alum and Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation volunteer Roxanne Martinez shares her advice for moving forward after treatment for triple-negative breast cancer ends. 

In this Q&A with our contributing writer Robin Warshaw, Helga Torres speaks about what it was like to learn that breast cancer had returned. She discusses the emotions she felt on learning she had metastatic breast cancer and ways she coped that were different from when she was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer.

Chiara D'Agostino was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer in 2014. In August 2016, she learned the cancer had spread to her lungs. Here, she shares her story of choosing to get treatment for metastatic, stage IV breast cancer through clinical trials and the experience of finding, learning about, and enrolling in trials that met her treatment needs. 

Diagnosed with early-stage triple-negative breast cancer, Peggy Valdez Olivas found herself asking "why me?" to try to understand why cancer was happening to her. But as treatment ended and she observed cancer's impact on those around her, another feeling set in: a form of surivivor's guilt. She began to wonder not why she was diagnosed with cancer, but why she was the one who lived through it. 

My Cancer Chic gives you 8 tips for body acceptance after a mastectomy and a first glance at AnaOno Swimwear.

Maegan Molnar was a social worker on the oncology floor of a hospital with a passion for helping others with their mental health. After being diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer, she experienced first-hand the emotional rollercoaster of going through, and ending, treatment. Read more to see what she wishes she'd been told about mental health when she was diagnosed and how to know if you or a loved one with cancer needs help. 

Tori Geib, an LBBC Hear My Voice outreach volunteer, reviews the book From Hell to Happiness: How to Heal When Your Loved One is Terminalby Christopher Cooper.

In this Q&A with our young women's contributing writer Robin Warshaw, Marie Farrell talks about complementary therapies she tried during and after treatment for stage II breast cancer. 

"TNBC and I have met twice," Patricia Prijatel says, "but our relationship is over."

Melissa Berry, founder of the blog Cancer Fashionista, tells the story of how her cancer diagnosis merged with her career as a fashion/beauty publicist and the people she's met in the meantime.