How Dee Manuel Cloud turned surviving breast cancer into advocacy for Black women

How Dee Manuel Cloud turned surviving breast cancer into advocacy for Black women

Dee Manuel Cloud didn’t set out to become a breast cancer advocate. What she set out to do, at first, was survive. Cloud was diagnosed with Stage II Ductal Carcinoma in 2005 at age 35. After enduring a lumpectomy, chemotherapy, and radiation, the cancer returned at age 38 in 2008. She had a unilateral mastectomy with reconstruction. The second time, Cloud sat in a doctor’s office wearing what she still remembers as a “godawful hospital gown” whe…