FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and it’s important to know that there are fantastic resources for treatment available in the Fresno area. The Community Cancer Institute is a multi-disciplinary clinic that gives patients the opportunity to have all of their essential physician specialists work together as a team. It’s all in one place and works in conjunction with the Marjorie Radin Breast Care Center. Click here for more MedWatch Today Click here for Community Medical Centers' homepage For people like Arax Martirosian, that made all the difference. She had a rare and aggressive form of breast cancer, but her team of doctors and specialists were there to guide her through it. “So it started just like any normal morning - getting ready to go to work, hopping in the shower. While I was in the shower I noticed a little tuck right underneath my left breast,” Martirosian said. She contacted her primary care doctor who sent her to the Marjorie E. Radin Breast Care Center where they ran several tests including a mammogram, an ultrasound and finally a biopsy. “The results were that I had lobular invasive breast cancer, estrogen positive, progesterone positive, H2 negative,” she said. “It was so surreal. I mean, that's not possible, right? I'm 37 years old. I'm healthy. I feel fine. And I just kind of sat with it for a few minutes, looked over to my husband and said, 'I have cancer.'”  She immediately met with her nurse navigator at the Radin Center who was there to help her along this journey. From there, she was referred to the Community Cancer Institute where she met the rest of her care team, which included Dr. Li Lisa Ge, a medical oncologist. “Her diagnosis was quite complex. It's not like a single nodule, single diagnosis. It appeared in multiple locations on one side of the breast.” Dr. Ge formulated a custom plan and brought together all the key specialists. Besides the team, resources, equipment and treatments, Arax didn’t have to travel outside the Fresno area. In fact, she didn’t even have to travel across town. For a person combating cancer, that’s a big deal. “I had to do chemo first. And then the double mastectomy, but I didn't get clear margins. So, they had to go back about six weeks later to remove more of the breast tissue and do a complete lymph node dissection,” she said. Over the next two years, Arax would receive 16 rounds of chemo, 25 rounds of radiation treatment and ongoing physical therapy. But in the end, she went from a fairly bleak prognosis to a new lease on life. “From day one, Community and the Radin Center had all the resources at my fingertips. I'm just north of a year of no disease found. So, I'm really happy about that. Of course, Dr. Ge is still watching me, making sure that I hit those milestones,” Martirosian said.