Adam Robison | Buy at photos.djournal.com Belinda Reynolds’ battle with breast cancer inspired the Mantachie Junior High cheerleaders, including her daughter Terra Belle, to form a team for the Komen North Mississippi Race for the Cure. It’s just one of the ways her friends, family and neighbors have fed her physically, emotionally and spiritually during the past year, said Reynolds, who lives in the Kirkville community. By Michaela Gibson Morris Daily Journal Because breast cancer will find one in eight American women, chances are high it will strike someone you know. Survivors from across Northeast Mississippi say they coveted the support from their friends, families and neighbors to help them through treatment and beyond. “It makes a world of difference,” said Wanda Barbour Dent, who is a breast cancer survivor and the women’s health nurse navigator at Baptist Cancer Center in Oxford. Belinda Reynolds, who lives in the Kirkville community on the Lee-Itawamba county line, has felt wrapped up in the love of the community since she was diagnosed with breast cancer in October 2015.

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