The scariest part was not that the doctor thought she was too young and too fit for the lump to be breast cancer. It was that he told her she didn’t need to come back to have it checked for six years. That would have been a death sentence.
“I shudder thinking, ‘what if I would not have went for that second appointment?’” four-time Olympian high jumper Chaunte Lowe told Yahoo Sports.
At 34 years old, Lowe noticed a tiny lump in her breast while doing a self-examination. The doctor waved it off, seemingly unconcerned, and the mother of three went back to the daily rigors of life.