Rebecca Stedman believes that every experience had in life serves a purpose, and cancer is no exception.

“Just as I felt like I was chosen to have a child with disabilities, I was also chosen to have breast cancer,” she says.

Rebecca stepped out of the shower one summer day in 2015 and felt a lump in her left breast. She’d received a clean bill of health during a well-woman exam just four months earlier, so she decided to...