Stephanie Keaty receives IV chemotherapy in January 2024. She underwent a bilateral mastectomy when she was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005, then again when she had to have the prosthetic breasts removed in 2019 after the cancer returned and spread. "We’re all going to die at some point," Keaty said. "I personally have come to a deeper understanding of the value of life, every single day. That’s what keeps me moving."
October 10, 2024
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Losing a body part — a limb, a finger, a breast — is never easy. "When we have parts of our body amputated, there’s something missing," Stephanie Keaty, 58, of Hayden, said Tuesday. "When breasts are amputated, as in a mastectomy, something’s gone." Keaty underwent bilateral mastectomy operations not once, but twice following her initial breast cancer diagnosis in 2005.