Let’s Support Brenja in her fight against Breast Cancer

Our girl, Brenja Theis, mom of two, loving wife, friend, sister, daughter and so much more, has been diagnosed with Breast Cancer. Let’s support this beautiful and deserving person as she and her family take on this fight. If you are able to help lessen their financial burden, we have set up this page for you to do so. However, please know that your love and support mean more than anything as Brenja continues to fight and heal.

WE LOVE YOU B AND FAM! YOU GOT THIS!✨

From Brenja’s IG Post: This cancer is called a Triple Negative Invasive Ducal

Carcinoma, grade 3.

It is a genetic cancer. This does not necessarily mean that cancer runs in my family, it means I have inherited a gene mutation that heavily increases my risk of developing this specific type of cancer.

It is aggressive, hard to kill, highly likely to recur and is fast growing.

Doctors have been able to measure that it had grown 0.3 cm in less than a month.

Meaning, while I had been learning and deciding what to to about this, it continued to grow.

I have been finding just as many blessings in this new journey as I have been findings things to be upset about.

This is technically a Stage 1 cancer because it has not spread to other organs of my body.

The tumor size borders Stage 1/ Stage 2 and has NOT metastasized throughout my lymp nodes. It is localized.

I see this as a huge silver lining.

We have found this early.

Given the nature of this cancer and the fact that it has no hormone receptors, standard care options are very limited for treating this. Chemotherapy is the only standard care treatment used for this type of cancer. Surgery typically follows.

There is not one, correct way to heal from cancer, and I definitely used to believe differently.

That was also before I was diagnosed with a genetic cancer, at 33, with a family and so much life left to consider. I have chosen my treatment regimen and have many plans for additional ways that I am going to heal from this.

I am five treatments into Chemotherapy and Immunotherapy.

It was the hardest decision I have ever had to make in my entire life.

I just want to be able to share information and insight on this to be able to help anyone else navigate, learn from, or even prevent just one more. -Brenja