Meet Jacquelyn

Jacquelyn and her husband Kevin live in Minnesota with their four kids and dog, Buddy. At age 38, she went to her doctor for a routine physical and breast exam. During this appointment she told her doctor that something wasn’t quite right, call it woman’s intuition, so at her request she went for an early mammogram where a tumor was discovered and ultimately a diagnosis of stage iv metastatic breast cancer.

The devastation of this diagnosis lit a fire- to help change the fact that only 3% of all breast cancer research funding is for stage iv metastatic breast cancer - the only kind of breast cancer we die from. Her nonprofit vraniCURE exists to fund research for metastatic breast cancer while educating and bringing awareness to the disease while supporting those living with it.

Thank you, for coming on this journey with me!

- Jacquelyn

My diagnosis

Original tumor was ER+ HER2 positive breast cancer.
Single metastasis to my liver was not HER2 positive

My treatments

12 rounds of Taxol chemotherapy and year of Herceptin and Perjeta for the HER2 piece of my cancer.

29 rounds of radiation
Currently Verzenio and an anastrozole

My surgeries and procedures

Bilateral Mastectomy
Liver resection
Oopherectomy
Cholecystectomy
Lung biopsy
Chest tube

Reconstruction

Mastectomy to expander
Fat graphting
Lat flap surgery