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BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR MALIHA MIAN CREATES AN ONLINE COMMUNITY FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF BREAST CANCER PATIENTS, SURVIVORS, AND CAREGIVERS
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BY ANIKA JACKSON REDICK HOUSTON, TX
What do you do when you survive a divorce with two young children, own a bustling law firm, and find out that you have breast cancer? If you are lawyer Maliha Mian, you start an online platform and an app, aptly titled “Got Boobs?”
could see myself sinking. You don’t feel good, you don’t feel loved.”
After friends suggested she share her journey, Mian created a YouTube video diary and began to share her story via Facebook. “I had so many women reach out to me, many Mali h a , d i a g n o s e d w i t h s t a ge of whom were married and still felt 2-breast cancer in September 2015, alone. They didn’t want to burden was shocked to receive the diagno- their spouses.” sis. She was healthy, an avid runner, and had no history of cancer in her In consultation with peers and family. Unable to care for her daugh- doctors, Maliha decided to embark ters while undergoing chemother- on a new challenge to help others apy, Ms. Mian felt alone, unloved, feel less alone, creating a compreand scared. “My situation was not hensive online platform with an acjust the cancer.” explained Mian. “I companying app that would help all
