When Casey Westlake had her first mammogram around a year ago, she was told everyone gets called back in. So when she was asked to stop by for another round of imaging, she knew not to panic. After that, however, Westlake got called in for a biopsy.
“I opened the biopsy results Sunday night, I think it was the Sunday before Thanksgiving, and I really thought there’s no way this is cancer, it’s not happening, and it was cancer,” Westlake said.
Westlake was diagnosed with stage 1B breast cancer, which she said was an early stage of the cancer. What followed was a winter with two surgeries, a spring filled with four rounds of chemotherapy and four weeks of radiation in the summer. She rang the bell to signal the end of her active cancer treatment on July 7 — just one day before her 41st birthday…