'I feel blessed': Cancer-stricken grandma who lost her son in 9/11 describes overwhelming joy after revolutionary two-hour treatment that had her back at work in just 10 days

A breast cancer diagnosis is the start of a lengthy and painful journey, through mastectomies, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and all its side effects. 


At best it takes two months to remove the disease. For 73-year-old Carla DiMaggio, after losing her firefighter son on 9/11 and four aunts to breast cancer at an early age, her diagnosis in 2014 came amid decades of grief. But there was one nugget of hope: she was eligible for a groundbreaking new two-hour procedure, that can have patients back in work and cancer-free within 10 days. Two years later, Carla, a grandmother-of-six from New York's Staten Island, remains cancer-free and incredibly grateful.