A University of Miami Ph.D. student has powered her way through breast cancer treatments and is now using her power lifting workouts as part of a research study.
LaShae Rolle was a competitive power lifter who realized the lump she felt in her breast needed to be checked out.
"I was in the middle of my Ph.D. in cancer prevention research, funny enough, and that kind of led me to figuring out that the lump that I had in my breast could potentially be cancerous," she told CBS News Miami.
Rolle was 26 years old when she was diagnosed with HR+, HER2- breast cancer last year and invasive ductal carcinoma. The news came as a shock, but not just because of her age — she has no family history of the disease.
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