Atlanta mother and daughter both diagnosed with breast cancer begin journey to healing

An Atlanta woman is asking the public for assistance after she and her mother were diagnosed with breast cancer.

Chasity Nolton said on GoFundMe that she had gained a new outlook on life after learning her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer.

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“The breast cancer fight is all too familiar as we recently lost a family member less than a year ago to this agonizing disease,” she wrote.

After learning her mother’s diagnosis and knowing that it is a disease that runs in her family, Nolton scheduled a mammogram and was told that she also had breast cancer.

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“I dreaded telling my mom because she is my priority, and I need to be strong for her,” the fundraiser said. “Never did I imagine that I would be fighting my own battle.”

According to the American Cancer Society, breast cancer is the most common cancer among American women after skin cancer. For women in the United States, there is about a 12 percent risk of breast cancer in their lifetime, meaning one in eight women will develop the disease.

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“As I embark on this journey with myself and my mother, I realize how important it is to spread awareness as well as seek help from a community that I am well connected with and to,” Nolton wrote. “The reality is I cannot do this on my own. There is no way I can help support my mom in the way I envisioned when we both will be doing treatment at the same time.

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