TAMPA, Fla. — A cancer diagnosis is typically given to women in their 40s or later in life.

But Erin Murray shares a young woman's battle up close and personal.

For almost an entire year, tubes, drips and beeps have made up Shinora Ellis life.

The now 25-year-old remembers first feeling a lump in her breast at just 21. A young mother of two at the time, doctors thought the lump was a clogged milk duct.

It wasn't until she was 24, her fears were confirmed with a mammogram. It was cancer.

"I have my kids, my two little kids, so in my mind, I am like, Christmas, like at Christmas I am supposed to be celebrating and enjoying and I was broken down," Ellis said.

A biopsy told doctors it was stage zero, the best news when it comes to cancer. All she had to do next was remove the tumor and with it her entire left breast. But then a different test showed something else.

"You have to do a pregnancy test before you go into there, so yep, popped up I was pregnant. Couldn't do the MRI guided biopsy," she said.

Now fighting for two lives, Ellis had her nine centimeter tumor removed. But when they dissected the tumor the doctor told Ellis if it was anything but DCIS (Ductal carcinoma in situ, which is abnormal cells in a milk duct), they would have to get her onto oncology. 

"She said, 'you are young and it’s going to suck.' That is the last thing she said, ohhhhh. I was like, ‘Oh man I don’t want to hear that,’” Ellis said.

The cancer was in fact stage one. Ellis needed to be treated with Chemo.

"I can't even take ibuprofen when I am pregnant, and we're talking about chemotherapy," Ellis said.

A team of doctors agreed though- the type of chemo she needed, would not harm the baby.

“I would come here, infusion, big belly. Ya know everybody is looking, like, ‘Oh my God. She is pregnant. She is doing chemo,’" she said.

At 35 weeks, little London came into the world. 

"She came out perfectly strong and healthy, and beautiful and strong. And not one hair on her body was out of place," she said.

Ellis' journey is not over. Every Friday until Black Friday she gets more chemo. 

And as if the year could not have been more of a roller coaster, Moffitt doctors wanted to check some suspicious spots in her other breast. 

"And I printed a copy of your MRI which was awesome. WHOOOOO, HOOOO! That is what I wanted to hear," Dr. Christine Laronga shared.

Negative. Tears fill the eyes of an elated 25-year-old who can now finally breathe her sigh of relief. 

“I started on at the end, I mean the beginning of the year thinking my life was over, and I overcame," Ellis said.

With reconstruction surgery in her future, Ellis is on her way back to feeling whole.

Ellis is a rare case. Women should have a breast cancer risk assessment done at the age of 30 and begin getting regular mammograms at 40. 

As always, your doctor is your best resource for treatment or health questions.