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• Photographer's Note: A Witness To Suffering, Strength
• Photos: Tampa Bay Breast Cancer Walk
• Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
• Young Survival Coalition
• American Cancer Survivors' Network
• National Cancer Institute

A Lonely Battle

HOLIDAY - She lay on the couch, wiped out after another chemo treatment, sucking on a cherry Popsicle to calm her churning stomach.

Her 2-year-old son nudged her arm, asking her to read him a story.

Michelle Bradley-Carley shifted between her two worlds. In one, she muses about scoring tickets to concerts and potty-training her son, Ashton.

In the other, she wonders how he would behave at her funeral.

A year ago, Michelle, now 35, found a lump in her left breast. It was Stage 3 breast cancer, the worst kind. All of a sudden, she became a newlywed and young mother dealing with a complicated, potentially fatal disease.