Jacksonville veteran diagnosed with stage 3 cancer after VA called mass ‘probably benign’

A Jacksonville veteran says she was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer months after doctors at the Jacksonville VA initially deemed a mass to be benign.

Now, 32-year-old Tanisha Crisp is speaking exclusively to Action News Jax, hoping her story encourages other women to trust their instincts when it comes to their health.

“I wasn’t thinking that it was cancer, but he told me that basically I needed to be assessed to see if it was cancer,” Crisp said.

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Crisp, an Army veteran, said her health scare began in February of last year when she went to the emergency room at the Mayo Clinic for chest pain…

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