PASCO COUNTY, Fla. — Any doctor will tell you the biggest tool you have for your own health is knowing what you are up against. Cancer is particularly insidious as it can grow inside you without you even knowing it.

What You Need To Know

Last November, Julie Ferullo got the news that put how fast life can pass by into perspective.

“It was absolutely horrifying. It’s devastating, you know?” she said.

A random free screening through Pasco County’s Department of Health discovered Ferullo had stage one breast cancer.

“… I fell into depression,” she revealed.

She was healthy and active, a mother of twins with an 86-year-old mother to take care of. With the cancer diagnosis, Ferullo faced the biggest, unexpected battle of her life… for her own survival.

“I have two children. I have a boy and a girl. They are 23 years old, and I have a whole life to live still,” she said.

That fighting spirit turned Ferullo’s depression into willpower and just last week, she finished her grueling radiation treatment at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa.

“God, I don’t know. I’m just glad everything happened. Moffitt, they are awesome there. Moffitt is a great hospital,” she said.

Ferullo’s fight isn’t over. It has simply taken a new form. She’s now an advocate and speaking out about regular cancer screenings. And how a simple one-hour appointment gave her some extra time.

“Get yourself checked.… That’s the most important thing because you just never know, it could just be laying stagnant in your body and you just don’t know,” she said.

And here is how powerful early cancer detection is. Despite everything Ferullo has gone through, she revealed that she just had a biopsy this week for cervical cancer.

If that’s the next battle she has to fight, Ferullo says knowing, and knowing early, is her best defense.

The Pasco County Department of Health has a mobile unit offering mammograms this weekend during an event.

This weekend’s event is all about helping women who do not have health insurance and those who have insurance but screenings are not covered.

And the mobile unit will offer 3D breast screenings for women who don’t have any current cancer symptoms.

The bus will be at the Pasco County Department of Health in new Port Richey on Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.