“They were no longer my breasts, they were like ticking time bombs attached to me,” 24-year-old woman from from Launceston in Tasmania who was diagnosed with the most aggressive form of breast cancer said.
In May last year, 23-year-old Allison Snare was diagnosed with breast
cancer and underwent a double mastectomy and five months of
chemotherapy. Later in order to show other young women that cancer can
affect people of all ages and to encourage them to get checked she did
a post chemotherapy photo shoot.
Speaking about her deadly disease and experience she wanted to documet, she said “A
lot of women don’t want to remember this part of their life but it is
part my life and it’s shaping who I am today. I put on about 12 kilos
since my diagnosis, so it was a bit confronting getting topless because
of that aspect.
Although there is a risk the cancer could return Ms Snare plans to
get through life the way she handled her cancer diagnosis – with
confidence and a positive attitude. She had a breast reconstruction
surgery on January 22 this year and hopes to start trying for
children with her 19-year-old partner soon.
She always knew she was high risk because her mother had breast cancer in her early 30s and ovarian cancer in her early 40s
In May last year, at 23, Ms Snare was diagnosed with the most aggressive form of breast cancer there is
The Launceston woman decided it was an period in her life that she wanted to document
I was conscious of my weight but I
thought it was more important to get the message out there that young
women do need to get checked. That’s why I wanted to get the photos out
there, so people could see it on a young body and know they’re
definitely not immune.”
Ms Snare decided to do a photo shoot in which she bared all – including her bald head and post-surgery chest
Ms
Snare had 12 embryos frozen before she started chemotherapy, and hopes
to start trying for children with partner Dwayne Darcy, 19, at the end
of this year
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