Surviving breast cancer: The battle of a lifetime

She had four months of chemotherapy, seven weeks of daily radiation and spent hours each day battling sickness; breast cancer-survivor Theresa Hunt had just one aspiration—to survive.

“I knew it would get better,” Hunt expressed with a solemn tone in her voice. “I knew it wasn’t my time to go and that I still have so much to live for.”

Thousands fight the rigorous battle against breast cancer each year in the U.S., all with the same goal of survival in mind. Chemotherapy, radiation and handling the burden of different prescription drugs are just a few of the treatments that each patient...