It takes guts to pose naked for a photograph. But it takes even more to face down stage-III breast cancer.
Hannah Marlow did both. The 33-year-old participated in the SCAR Project, a collection of large-scale photos of young breast-cancer survivors taken by New York City-based fashion photographer David Jay. Marlow will tell her story, and present her powerful portrait, at the 16th Annual Breast Cancer Conference presented by the Vermont Cancer Center in South Burlington on October 4.
Marlow was 29 when she found the lump in her breast. The upstate New York resident knew something wasn’t right. But when she visited the hospital for a mammogram, doctors did an ultrasound instead and told her it was just a cyst.
She was still convinced something was wrong. So she made another appointment for three months later at Fletcher Allen Health Care. By then, the lump had grown to nearly the size of a golf ball, and her nipple had turned inward.
A few days after a biopsy, she got the call: She had stage-III breast cancer.
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