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Angeline Mulbah speaks to those attending the Cancer Awareness & Health Summit on Saturday in Darby. (KATHLEEN E. CAREY \u2013 DAILY TIMES)<\/p>\nSurvivors, fighters and supporters of loved ones going through it came together Saturday at the Darby Borough Community Center for the Cancer Awareness & Health Summit.<\/p>\n
Held in the month of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the room and tables were decked in bright pink as speakers shared their stories to inspire and remind the public to advocate for their health.<\/p>\n
Although she hadn\u2019t experienced breast cancer, co-host Theresa Terrell wanted to provide a forum where women could come and share their own testimonies around the disease.<\/p>\n
Terrell explained that one of the three speakers, Angeline Mulbah, had wanted to host her own event as a survivor and they decided to join forces.<\/p>\n
Mulbah said she was diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer in February 2024.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the age of 40, I always went and did my mammogram that was requested and required by doctors,\u201d she said. \u201cThe mammogram came back clear.\u201d<\/p>\n
Angeline Mulbah speaks to those attending the Cancer Awareness & Health Summit on Saturday in Darby. (KATHLEEN E. CAREY \u2013 DAILY TIMES)<\/p>\n
However, the cancer wasn\u2019t detected until she visited an emergency room because of pain she was experiencing.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnother doctor told me, \u2018You have cancer,\u2019 \u201d Mulbah said, adding that another physician had told her it was dead tissue.<\/p>\n
She was sharing her story at the summit to encourage community members to advocate for their health.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the end of the day, I can tell you what\u2019s going on with my body,\u201d she said of self-awareness playing a key. \u201cEven if one person shut a door, make sure you go somewhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n
Since her diagnosis, Mulbah said she\u2019s gone through six months of chemotherapy and six weeks of radiation and will be on medication for 20 years.<\/p>\n
The event featured three speakers, including Mulbah, Ruth Jordan and Larnette Chennault.<\/p>\n
Jordan authored the book, \u201cLord Help! Reaching for God in Times of Trouble,\u201d last year about some of her life experiences.<\/p>\n
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Ruth Jordan wrote \u201cLord Help! Reaching for God in Times of Trouble\u201d last year. (KATHLEEN E. CAREY \u2013 DAILY TIMES)<\/p>\n
\u201cCancer does not discriminate,\u201d the 81-year-old said. \u201cI came down in January of this year with Stage 3 cancer of my left lung.\u201d<\/p>\n
In June, she had a lobectomy and her lymph nodes were removed.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs I stand before you, I am still recovering from it,\u201d Jordan said. \u201cIt\u2019s been a very long journey because I had been hospitalized for sepsis. I almost crossed over but I made it and that\u2019s when they found the cancer. I would\u2019ve never known, so it\u2019s important that we get examinations.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said her doctors would like her to do chemotherapy for the lung cancer.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I\u2019m believing in God,\u201d Jordan said. \u201cI believe in holistic medicine along with regular medicine. I believe in the healing power of God.\u201d<\/p>\n
She added that her medical team monitors her situation every three months.<\/p>\n
Chennault\u2019s ordeal is intertwined with her mother.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am a six-year breast cancer survivor myself,\u201d the Chester resident said. \u201cMy journey began before that because I was a caregiver for my mom, who had Stage 4 breast cancer.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe passed away in 2020,\u201d Chennault said of Annette Albury. \u201cSix months after she passed, I was diagnosed with Stage 1 breast cancer so it was a lot all at once to take in.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy the time I got my diagnosis, I was grieving and trying to deal with the fact that I was just diagnosed,\u201d Chennault said. \u201cWhat got me through was just thinking about strong my mom was and what got her through and then also, I had my family, friends, my church family. I call them my \u2018faith journey followers.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n
That was the genesis of her business, Faith Journey Apparel.<\/p>\n
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The speakers at the Cancer Awareness & Health Summit in Darby on Saturday are, from left, Theresa Terrell, Angeline Mulbah and Ruth Jordan. (KATHLEEN E. CAREY \u2013 DAILY TIMES)<\/p>\n
\u201cThe main thing I do is I like to spread inspirational messages to help other people who are going through and even caregivers,\u201d Chennault said. \u201cI have a little bit for everybody, just spreading inspiration and faith \u2026 I want them to have the faith that God can heal them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chennault needed to have a bilateral mastectomy and breast reconstruction but didn\u2019t need chemotherapy or radiation.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had five surgeries,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n
The survivor encouraged women to listen to their bodies.<\/p>\n
\u201cYour body will speak to you so please listen to it,\u201d Chennault said. \u201cDefinitely keep up with your annual mammograms. Another big one is a lot of people don\u2019t do genetic testing. They may be a carrier and you don\u2019t know it. If you can do genetic testing, do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
She also recommended that if women notice any changes to their body to get it checked out.<\/p>\n
Then, she spoke of how her business was created.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe started a campaign for her to help with her medical expenses,\u201d she said of her mom. \u201cSo, we just started off with just T-shirts and cups.\u201d<\/p>\n
They bore the slogan \u201cFaith Journey #CancerDontLiveHere.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter she passed, in honor of her, I brought in the brand and I called it Faith Journey Apparel and I added more shirts with sayings that she used to say,\u201d Chennault said, adding that the line has since expanded to include more shirts, tote bags, cups, fashion sunglasses and bling sneakers and Crocs.<\/p>\n
Darby Borough Council President Lucille Pratt said her 87-year-old mother, Louise, was recently diagnosed with breast cancer.<\/p>\n
\u201cI started hearing about different people,\u201d the councilwoman added. \u201cDon\u2019t suffer in solitude. We\u2019re in this thing together.\u201d<\/p>\n
Terrell said she and her husband, Paul, operate the nonprofit Love is Still Available Foundation, that offers services such as the summit.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe create different events, try to bring people together,\u201d the Brookhaven resident said. \u201cThis was a well-needed event and I actually specially picked each speaker so they would be able to share their story.\u201d<\/p>\n
Terrell explained that although this year was the first year for the Cancer Awareness & Health Summit, it\u2019s an event she anticipates holding annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Survivors, fighters and supporters of loved ones going through it came together Saturday at the Darby Borough Community…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[212,182,139,28,69,71,70,210],"class_list":["post-309320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-delaware-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-top-stories-dtd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}