Wilson, North Carolina (WTVD) – You will not know that if you don’t tell you, but Saptosa Foster was a silent warrior last year. She was fighting a disease that was not running in her family.
“Breast cancer seems like me. I never thought I would say that because I had no chronic diseases. I am a strong friend,” said Saptosa Foster.
Foster, 49, was always consistent with X -ray breast imaging. Doctors at the Wilson Medical Center identified that the first stage tumor in April 2024 after she said it had no signs that she was living with breast cancer.
“This was not a tumor you could feel. It was the size of a pencil eraser. I do self -test for self.”
Foster was a tumor removal in June 2024. During recovery, she often spent a time to think of the backyard courtyard. Doctors said that there was no need for chemotherapy, but it underwent an isolated form of radiation.
I remained in the American Cancerity’s Hope Lodge in Greenville during treatment.
“This was a huge and huge blessing just because you are able to discover this when it was.” Foster said. “I feel it is important to speak and tell people about how the death penalty is not.”
According to American Cancer Association1 in every 8 women in the United States will be diagnosed with breast cancer. Black women are likely to be diagnosed in the subsequent stages, and as a result, they have the lowest rate to stay for each known stage of breast cancer.
“We want to know why. Do they treat differently? Is it their environment? What is it?” Tami Missirkola interrogated the American Cancer Society.
Miserocla said that the American Cancer Association is recruiting a new study called the voices of black women. It is something that the organization hopes to be a changing games for early detection in black women.
Foster has been a survivor of cancer since June 2024. The bell rang granted because the doctors discovered the disease in its early stages. It is attributed to treatment and its village to help it move last year. Her mother, in particular, showed the biggest support because she overcomes the most difficult moment in her life.
“It takes a village not only to raise a child, but to keep an adult alive as well. I am very grateful because I own that village,” she said.
The American Cancer Association maintains steps of breast cancer in the triangle, North Carolina Walk on Saturday, October 25, 2025, at Durham Bulls Sports Park at 8:00 am
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