2025 Komen Columbus Race for the Cure

Kayleigh Roberts

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Your gift could provide a one month supply of Tamoxifen, a drug used to treat breast cancers that rely on estrogen for growth, to a patient in need. Every 60 seconds, somewhere in the world, someone dies from breast cancer. Your gift will help save lives! Your gift could provide a screening mammogram to an uninsured or underinsured person in need. Your gift could provide a breast prosthesis for an uninsured or underinsured woman in need. Your gift will help us reach our bold goal to reduce the current number of breast cancer deaths by 50% in the U.S. within the next decade!

My Team: Kayleigh Roberts

My Event: 2025 Komen Columbus Race for the Cure

Date: Saturday, May 17, 2025

Welcome to My Personal Page

In December of 2019, at age 33, I was nursing my youngest son when I felt an oddly-shaped lump. I assumed it was lactational and nothing more, but my husband urged me to have it checked out.

On December 23rd, I paused my family’s holiday plans and left my husband and our three children (ages 2, 4, and 6) to see my OBGYN. What started as a “quick check” at 8am developed into a day of scans, bloodwork, and two invasive biopsies.

By Christmas Eve night, I was diagnosed with HR- in situ breast cancer -- a diagnosis that left me simultaneously devastated and thankful for early detection. I was advised to stop breastfeeding so scans would be more accurate, and my next appointment was scheduled. That appointment was cancelled due to Covid; it would be another 7 months before I’d see my doctor again. (And it would be another two years before a family member would be permitted to attend an appointment or surgical procedure with me.)

I am extremely lucky to have been diagnosed so early by my wonderful care team, and I'm forever grateful to have such an amazing support group, not only within my family, but also throughout my community.

1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. This means your wives, best friends, mothers, and sisters will at some point have to fight this. I want this road to be as bearable as possible for them. I ask you to join me in supporting these future women so they can benefit from ongoing cancer research and live long, healthy, fulfilling lives.