Official Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation Collab

One in eight women will get breast cancer.

Although breast cancer mostly occurs among older women, we know nine percent of all new cases affect women 45 and younger.

That’s a lot of mamas, sisters, wives, girlfriends, and best friends getting cancer.

Triple-negative breast cancer, which cancer that is not fueled by estrogen and progesterone hormones, or by the HER2 protein, is considered aggressive because it grows quickly, is more likely to have spread at the time it’s found, and is more likely to come back after treatment than other types of breast cancer.

Basically, it’s a jack wagon.

While anyone can get a triple negative breast cancer diagnosis, TNBC disproportionally strikes:

• Younger women

• Women of African, Latinx or Caribbean descent

• Those with the BRCA1 gene mutation

When I was diagnosed with Triple Negative Breast Cancer around 8 a.m. on July 22, 20219 and then welcomed my first daughter into the world six hours later, Damon was knighted my caretaker.

While I was the one tackling chemotherapy, a double mastectomy and partial reconstruction, radiation, a prophylactic oophorectomy and hysterectomy, and reconstruction, Damon was the one changing bandages, rocking a newborn, and holding it all together while I was busy falling a part.

Cancer affects everyone.

In honor of my wildlife refuge managin’, wildlife lovin’ caretaker, the Duck Cancer shirt featuring Damon’s favorite, the pintail, is LIVE IN THE SHOP.

Ten percent of sales will be directed to the Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation, which was founded in honor of a wife and mama who was murdered by cancer, to help fund research that will ultimately fuel new treatments for a type of cancer with limited treatment options.

And, friends, they love the new shirt design.

I said, “collab?” and they responded with a corporate version of “hell yes.”

Duck cancer, indeed.