Georgia woman beats breast cancer twice: ‘I feel like I’m a better version of me’ [Video]

At 43, Tasashia McCormick of Mableton, Georgia, is learning to slow down and savor life’s small moments.

“I feel like I’m a better version of me now, having gone through some really hard things, made some really hard decisions,” McCormick says.

She was 40 when she was diagnosed with cancer for the first time in Jan. 2020.

“It was a regular mammogram,” she says. “What they saw in the mammogram were suspicious areas that they call micro-calcifications.”

She had been getting mammograms for seven years.

“My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 32-years-old,” McCormick says. “She had HER2+. She was 48.”

Her mom survived her fight.

McCormick admits she wasn’t worried when doctors at Atlanta’s Northside Hospital initially flagged her mammogram.

“I’m like, ‘Maybe it’s just a bad read,'” McCormick remembers. “That’s what I said to myself. I didn’t want to immediately go to cancer.”

Types of treatment for breast cancer

She underwent a procedure known as a lumpectomy.

“They remove the tumor itself and the …