A California woman age 29 : 'with stage 4 breast cancer denied mammogram at I 'll be fighting forever'

Philecia La'Bounty of Huntington Beach, California, was misdiagnosed with breast cancer in 1999.

She says she's "shouting from the rooftops to raise awareness to make cancer

A chronic illness rather than a death sentence because women deserve more

La'Bounty said she was 29 years old when she first discovered a marble-sized lump in her left breast

She says she didn't have health insurance at the time, but was able to get a physical

Exam and an ultrasound through an alternative health care program

Within two weeks, we got the results. They said it was a 'benign, gunky cyst — nothing to worry about,' La'Bounty recalled.