HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Every year breast cancer takes 40,000 women away from their husbands, children and friends. While the search for a cure continues, hundreds of survivors were celebrated here in Houston Saturday morning.
"I wasn't told until I was in the doctor's office and I literally fell off the table," said breast cancer survivor, Sandra Scott.
Like every breast cancer survivor, Sandra Scott will always remember the day she learned she was fighting breast cancer.
"It was just awful, I thought my life was over," said Scott.
It's a common theme among these very uncommon women. Each was diagnosed with breast cancer. Each endured a personal battle shared by millions of women.
Scott is among 200 women honored today at the 4th annual Katherine's Breakfast for Survivors. For event organizers it's a way to give back to those who gone through the unimaginable.
"Their journey has not been easy," said Karena Poke with Urban Philanthropy by KP.
Poke says she was devastated after losing her grandmother to cancer. So she turned her attention to survivors of the disease.
"We first started with just fifty ladies and it has just grown every year," said Poke.
Fortunately for Sandra Scott and the others in this room, a cancer diagnosis was not the end.
"At the end I figured out, I didn't choose cancer, cancer chose me. But I had a God that's greater. sorry, I have a God that's greater than cancer," said Scott.
Organizers and doctors say your best chance of beating breast cancer is early detection.