Jessica Lynn

Acknowledgment: This article was originally written by Jessica Lynn for Patient Worthy. Jessica has worked in the rare disease space for several years, dedicating herself to making spaces for patients whose voices deserve to be heard. She hopes that her website Rareatives will help create that sense of community for those living with rare conditions. On paper, Roger Magowitz’s career experience may not seem like the obvious choice to lead a grassroots organization for pancreatic cancer.

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The practitioner felt the lump first: on the side of Jessica’s left breast, sitting at around the 2- or 3-o’clock position. Although the lump was concerning, the practitioner said nothing. Jessica was just 33 years old — way too young, in the practitioner’s opinion, for her to have cancer. When the clinical exam was finished, Jessica was sent on her way with no recognition of what was coming.