{"id":5654,"date":"2024-05-06T20:28:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T20:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=5654"},"modified":"2024-05-06T20:44:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T20:44:14","slug":"kris-hallenga-advocate-for-breast-cancer-awareness-among-the-young-dies-at-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=5654","title":{"rendered":"Kris Hallenga, Advocate for Breast Cancer Awareness Among the Young, Dies at 38"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After being diagnosed with advanced breast cancer when she was 23, she became determined to educate other young people about early detection.<\/p>\n

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When Kris Hallenga was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer \u2014 the most advanced form \u2014 at 23, questions swirled through her head: \u201cWhy didn\u2019t anyone tell me to check my boobs? Why didn\u2019t I know I could get breast cancer at 23?\u201d<\/p>\n

If she hadn\u2019t known that she could have breast cancer so young, there was a very good chance others were equally uninformed, she said in a 2021 interview with The Guardian<\/a>. She spent the next 15 years educating young people about early detection through her nonprofit organization, CoppaFeel, and in a 2021 memoir, \u201cGlittering a Turd.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Monday, CoppaFeel announced that Ms. Hallenga had died at 38. A spokesman for the organization said she had died at home in Cornwall, England, and that the cause was breast cancer.<\/p>\n

\u201cSurvival was never enough,\u201d she said during a publicity tour<\/a> in 2021. \u201cI don\u2019t just want to survive, I want to be able to really look at my life and go, \u2018I\u2019m glad to still be here, and I\u2019m getting the most of what I want from life.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Kristen Hallenga was born on Nov. 11, 1985, in Norden, a small town in northern Germany, to a German father and an English mother, both of whom were teachers, according to The Times of London<\/a>. When she was 9, she moved to Daventry in central England with her mother, Jane Hallenga; her twin sister, Maren Hallenga; and their older sister Maike Hallenga, all three of whom survive her. Her father, Reiner Hallenga, died of a heart attack when she was 20.<\/a><\/p>\n

Ms. Hallenga first felt a lump in 2009 when she was in Beijing working for a travel company and teaching on the side. During a visit back home<\/a> in the Midlands in central England, Ms. Hallenga went to her internist. She told The Guardian that her doctor had blamed the lump on hormonal changes associated with her birth control pill.<\/p>\n

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After being diagnosed with advanced breast cancer when she was 23, she became determined to educate other young people about early detection.When Kris Hallenga was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer \u2014 the most advanced form \u2014 at 23, questions swirled through her head: \u201cWhy didn\u2019t anyone tell me to check my boobs? Why didn\u2019t I know I could get breast cancer at 23?\u201dIf she hadn\u2019t known that she could have breast cancer so young, there was a very good chance others were equally uninformed, she said in a 2021 interview with The Guardian. She spent the next 15 years educating young people about early detection through her nonprofit organization, CoppaFeel, and in a 2021 memoir, \u201cGlittering a Turd.\u201dOn Monday, CoppaFeel announced that Ms. Hallenga had died at 38. A spokesman for the organization said she had died at home in Cornwall, England, and that the cause was breast cancer.\u201cSurvival was never enough,\u201d she said during a publicity tour in 2021. \u201cI don\u2019t just want to survive, I want to be able to really look at my life and go, \u2018I\u2019m glad to still be here, and I\u2019m getting the most of what I want from life.\u2019\u201dKristen Hallenga was born on Nov. 11, 1985, in Norden, a small town in northern Germany, to a German father and an English mother, both of whom were teachers, according to The Times of London. When she was 9, she moved to Daventry in central England with her mother, Jane Hallenga; her twin sister, Maren Hallenga; and their older sister Maike Hallenga, all three of whom survive her. Her father, Reiner Hallenga, died of a heart attack when she was 20.Ms. Hallenga first felt a lump in 2009 when she was in Beijing working for a travel company and teaching on the side. During a visit back home in the Midlands in central England, Ms. Hallenga went to her internist. She told The Guardian that her doctor had blamed the lump on hormonal changes associated with her birth control pill.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5656,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5657,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654\/revisions\/5657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}