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First, Edith Joyner's younger sister was diagnosed with breast cancer. From her sick bed, she pushed Joyner and two other siblings to have mammograms.
Then one of Joyner's older sisters was diagnosed with the same disease. That sibling lived. The other died.
Those horrible years transformed Joyner from a retired Metro Nashville schoolteacher into a nationally recognized women's health advocate responsible for recruiting women to participate in a ground-breaking breast cancer study.
"I was so proud of my sisters, how they fought breast cancer, that I thought I needed to do something to show them just how proud I am and needed to do something about this disease," Joyner said.
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