Annie's Cafe and Bar is a bustling downtown Austin restaurant. Always on the menu -- healthy and organic food. Co-owner Love Nance knows that even health conscious women who try to do everything right can get cancer.
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"I was shocked. It was not in my family. It was something that never entered my mind," she said.
Three years ago, Nance was diagnosed with Stage Two breast cancer. A lumpectomy and 36 rounds of radiation quickly followed.
"After you get over the initial shock, how you are going to approach it? And I even viewed the radiation machine as if it was a healing machine," said Nance.
According National Breast Cancer Foundation estimates, one in eight women either has or will develop breast cancer in her lifetime.
But if detected early, the five-year survival rate for breast cancer exceeds 96 percent.
Nance has stayed strong, opening and managing her thriving restaurant -- proving that having cancer doesn't mean you have to back down.
"If I can overcome this cancer I can do anything," she said.
Nance is now cancer free, saying that a positive attitude and unyielding spirit can help in the road to recovery.
"You just realize if you can get through this you can do anything. You are fearless afterwards," Nance said.
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death behind lung cancer, that's why KVUE News and Susan G. Komen For The Cure have teamed up to promote breast cancer awareness.
