How do you carry on when you’re told you have a disease that has no cure? That’s the question former America’s Next Top Model contestant Jael Strauss is currently facing. Strauss recently announced she is facing incurable stage 4 breast cancer. Stage 4, or metastatic breast cancer, is the most advanced form of breast cancer. The 5-year survival rate for people with stage 4 disease is only 22%, according to the American Cancer Society.
Still, even though the disease is “incurable,” there are so many treatment options available for people with breast cancer today. Strauss, who is only 34 and appeared on ANTM in 2007, wrote an emotional Facebook post where she detailed the specifics of her disease.
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