At 31 years old, Cindy Ayure learned she had stage 3 breast cancer.
"Everybody asks, 'Why me?' or 'That's not fair' or 'I don't want to die,'" said Ayure. "All those things kind of go through your head."
The mother of two has been through a year-long battle with her illness.
"I picked myself up, and I fought and I'm fighting," said Ayure. "I can safely say I haven't cried since that day."
But Ayure may have never learned she had cancer in time for treatment without the help of one local organization.
When Ayure first discovered a lump in her breast, a mammogram was too expensive. Even though she worked two jobs, she could not afford health insurance.
That's when a doctor referred her to The Rose, a local nonprofit that screens women for breast cancer regardless of their financial situation...
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