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1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Mirel Zaman

   I Never Protected My Kids From the Reality Of Metastatic Breast Cancer (opens the original)

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   Frances Malinis grew up knowing what cancer looked like, but not how to talk about it. Her father died from the disease — nasopharyngeal cancer, a rare type of head and neck cancer — when he was 32 years old and she was 6. His mother and grandmother had also died from cancer at young ages. “Cancer was a known part of our family’s story, but it was never openly discussed,” Malinis tells SheKnows, “as if saying it out loud might somehow bring it into the present.” When her father was diagnosed and

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2. Article · Jul 27, 2026 · Mirel Zaman

   How a Stage 4 Breast Cancer Diagnosis Brought Me & My Son Closer Than Ever (opens the original)

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   Kristi Turner wouldn’t call her stage 4 cancer diagnosis a “blessing in disguise”—she, of course, wishes it had never happened. But it’s a reflection of her personality that she can’t help but focus on the bright spots that have littered her journey. And those have mostly included her son. Turner was a 37-year-old single mother to a 9-year-old when she received the diagnosis that changed her life. She’d initially gone to the doctor complaining of persistent back pain, and left that first visit w

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