It was December 12th, 2016, 2:02 pm, when I heard the words I never thought I would hear; ‘YOU. HAVE. CANCER.’ It was called, triple negative breast cancer (I didn’t know I had the gene until my diagnosis), and occurs in about 10 - 20% of diagnosed breast cancers (more likely to affect younger people, African Americans, Ashkenazi Jews, and Hispanics).