Metro Atlanta woman using breast cancer diagnosis to help, inspire others [Video]

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – A breast cancer diagnosis is becoming frighteningly familiar for women under the age of 50 in the United States, according to the American Cancer Society.

Tiffany Kinkead, a Douglasville resident, is one of those women.

Just four months after she got married, she found a lump during a self-breast exam. Kinkead was later diagnosed with stage one breast cancer at 26.

“I had never had a mammogram before. I was like 26 and it was just very odd. People were like, ‘Why are you here,’” Kinkead said.

Her husband Kurt was there by her side.

“My mission or mindset back then was through sickness and health. And I didn’t expect the sickness part to hit us that early, but I was there to be that support system for her, to be her strength, to be her protector in the moment. So that was my main focus at the time,” he said.

After …