ATLANTA — An Atlanta woman is asking the public for assistance after she and her mother were diagnosed with breast cancer.
Chasity Nolton said on GoFundMe that she had gained a new outlook on life after learning her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer.
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“The breast cancer fight is all too familiar as we recently lost a family member less than a year ago to this agonizing disease,” she wrote.
After learning her mother’s diagnosis and knowing that it is a disease that runs in her family, Nolton scheduled a mammogram and was told that she also had breast cancer.
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