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She received public attention after being profiled in Kris: Dying to Live, a documentary that covered her experience living with terminal breast cancer. Hallenga was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 23. Her doctor originally dismissed a tumor on Hallenga’s breast as “hormonal” leading to a late diagnosis.
Due to this, she now lives with stage four breast cancer.
Despite Hallenga’s cancer having spread to her liver and her bones, and having had a lesion on her brain, she has survived her original prognosis by living with terminal cancer for over five years. I was diagnosed in 2009, and I was diagnosed eight months after first going to the doctors.
I was told three times that I was too young to get breast cancer. I decided that my story needs to be told and we need to get young people thinking about breast cancer and their boobs from a younger age, and start checking from a younger age because I never did.
I thought it was never going to happen to medical
They launched, a breast cancer awareness charity, at Beach Break Live in 2009. The charity receives frequent media coverage, and according to Daily Mail columnist, Andrew Pierce, “‘has saved thousands of lives”.
