Marissa Morganelli, 32, breast cancer, Stoughton, MA

In May 2025, Marissa noticed a lump in her breast. At age 31, cancer was the last thing on her mind, but when it hadn’t gone away after a few weeks, she visited her nurse practitioner, who referred her to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s South Shore location for a mammogram. A biopsy confirmed she had invasive ductal carcinoma, a type of breast cancer. Marissa, who loves to travel, was in Canada…