women like nan mcconnell who was 32 when she received her own breast cancer diagnosis in 2006. her daughter was three years old at the time. with the breast cancer at stage ii she didn't know whether she would live long enough to see her daughter go to kindergarten much less graduate from high school and college. in the midst of a grueling chemotherapy regimens she promised god that if she was given the strength she needed to outlast the disease she would devote her life to helping other young women battled breast cancer. she won her battle and then she made good on a promise by creating tigerlily foundation. even before my own diagnosis i voice them a promoter of research and awareness but when i developed breast cancer that work to k. more important me. in 2009 after he shared my own experience publicly teamed up with her and her foundation to craft legislation that directed the centers for disease control to launch a campaign designed to raise awareness of breast cancer in young women. that the was incorporated within the affordable care act obamacare is that passed into law