Fighting Back — Lizanne Kearney on Stage 4 Cancer

Where do I go from here? · Nov 5, 2026 · 57m

Lizanne Kearney is 41 years old, a mother of two, a wife, a fighter — and she will be the first to tell you she is not going anywhere.

Four months after the birth of her daughter Lily, Lizanne found a lump. Her mother had died of breast cancer. She knew something wasn’t right. She pushed. She advocated. She fought for her own referral when the system wasn’t moving fast enough — and that decision changed everything.

What followed was two years of relentless challenge. Seven weeks of chemotherapy. A severe immunotherapy reaction. A lumpectomy on Halloween. A mastectomy one week later. A phone…