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When Sara Flagstad felt a lump in her breast during a monthly self-exam in the summer of 2023, she couldn’t imagine the life-changing events that would follow.
Flagstad, 34, who lives in Eden Prairie with her 9-year-old daughter, Nora, called her doctor.
A mammogram led to an ultrasound and then a biopsy.
“They were almost certain that, due to my age and lack of family history that it was most likely some kind of benign growth,” Flagstad said.
But the biopsy came back as triple-negative breast cancer, a rare form of the disease and one of its most lethal and aggressive types.
“I was fortunate to have caught it early while it was still Stage 1, but triple negative is always straight to chemo,” she said.
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Flagstad suddenly found herself amid a whirlwind of medical advice, an uncertain future, no experience with a life-threatening disease, and the responsibility of caring for a young daughter.
During her first visit to her oncologist’s office, she was given a
