COLUMBUS (WCMH) — Amber Preston is a single mother, a successful make up artist and a 30-year-old breast cancer survivor.

In 2014, Amber was 28. And as the year started, she was busy working two jobs and raising her daughter. But life was good.

That March, Amber had a breast augmentation. She was young, healthy and had no history of breast cancer. The surgery went well but as the swelling went down, Amber found a lump. It was stage three breast cancer.

“First I had surgery and then I did sixteen rounds of chemo and 32 radiation, and then I had to finish out the year of a biotherapy called Herceptin,” said Amber. “And now I just get to do a monthly shot that shuts down your ovaries.”

During her treatment Amber got married and divorced. She found a strength that at the time she didn’t even know she had.

“You’re making a choice and some days are harder than others but you get up and you do it and you just have to keep on,” Amber said.

She is now inspiring others as an honorary chair for the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. And she urges anyone going through hard times to remember that “Pain is always temporary. Just do what you can to get through that.”

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