Jackie Lechtenberg is 25 year breast cancer survivor

Although breast cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer to affect women, it most often strikes women in middle age. This, however, was not the case for Postville’s Jackie Lechtenberg. A 25 year cancer survivor, she discovered a lump in her breast when she was in her early thirties. 

She explains her story like this, “I went to the doctor for my yearly exam and shared my concern with the doctor. Due to my age, he told me it was nothing to worry about as he was sure it was not cancer.”

On his advice Jackie said she ignored the lump, but it was always in the back of her mind. A year later when she went back for another exam the lump was still there and her physician, again, told her not to worry. But, she was worried as she had heard so many stories about the devastation of breast cancer.

Read the full article in the Ocotber 19, 2016 edition of the Postville Herald.

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