Breast cancer diagnosis led Dorchelle Spence to a career in writing and motivational speaking


It was a regular Tuesday morning when Dorchelle Spence felt a lump in her breast.

“I’m in the shower, warning bells are going off,” she remembered.

Spence knew it was bad. And it was bad.

She was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer, a particularly grim form of the cancer. Her tests were initially misread, and she was later given a HER2 diagnosis, which has better outcomes.

“I knew that I had to approach it from a perspective of being positive and courageous through the fight,”…

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