Waukee Mom Turns Crusader for Others With Breast Cancer
Katie Mangan was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer in 2009. Today she's cancer-free and helping others like her in the fight against the disease.
Imagine: You’re 30 years old, a mom of two young girls with a doting husband, great friends and a supportive family. Yeah, life is good. Then one day, you discover a lump in your breast. Everything changes. That’s life in a nutshell for Katie Mangan. It was in April 2009 when the Waukee stay-at-home mom finished nursing her second child when she found a lump in her right breast. A doctor thought enough of it to investigate further and on May 6, 2009, Mangan was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer. She wasn't about to hit the canvass; she embraced the fight. “My first reaction? I was totally scared,” she recalled. “I remember thinking, What are my girls going to do without me if I can’t beat this? And Why me? But then I thought, Why not me…
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Donna Dressel
12:48 pm on Thursday, October 6, 2011
Hooray Katie! Keep up the good works you are doing, inspiring us along the way! Fondly, Donna Dressel St. Boniface more ›