I was 23 years old, and was really living. I had just moved back to California after spending four years in Barcelona getting my undergrad. I had a new job, was loving being around family again, and was living a

The last day I saw her healthy will forever be burned in my memory. It was another beautiful morning in Oxnard, California, and my mom was watering her yellow roses in our courtyard. I could hear the ocean waves crashing

I had good genes, or so I thought. It was something I always relied upon. In my giant extended family, cancer was conspicuously missing. Longevity was in my bloodlines, that of my parents and my grandparents. While I feared a

Hi! My name is Rachel Cantu and I have the privilege of being mom to two amazing boys, Jonah and Gabriel, and wife to my high school sweetheart, David. Our story is one of love, fun, family, tragedy, and eternity. “Ma’am,

Shortly after turning 40, I felt a small lump in my breast. I was devastated when doctors confirmed my worst fears, and I was diagnosed with Stage IIB triple-negative breast cancer. (Ironically, on the first day of Breast Cancer Awareness