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Amanda Luchacuso

Breast cancer survivor and young-onset patient advocate featured on Susan G. Komen's Real Pink podcast; works in executive support/operations at BASF.

Sep 21, 2026

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you
4:21
know, I really worked through those.
4:24
We cut our vacation short so I could come home for the biopsy.
4:27
And they're like, you know, if it's a cyst, we're going to do this puncture and you're going to watch this go down because we're pulling fluid out right on the screen in front of you.
4:35
And they did the puncture and it was solid.
4:38
And in that moment, I was like, oh, my gosh, my whole life is about to change.
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Right.
7:55
How did you balance the duties of a mom and the duty to yourself to get healing? And what did that support network look like for you?

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