3-time breast cancer survivor from Daly City turns 39-year fight into mission to help others

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and CBS News Bay Area is highlighting a three-time breast cancer survivor who is now giving back to the community. "I'm still thinking positive. I have survived 39 years of breast cancer, and I'm still here. I'm very thankful to God that I'm alive," Asuncion Balon, who lives in Daly City, told CBS News Bay Area. "I felt a lump in my breast, and I went to the doctor. Actually, that lump was negative, but they found something else that was cancer," she said.After treatment, she said nine years later, the cancer returned. And then, 20 years since her first diagnosis, she said she had breast cancer on the right side. Balon's fight for good health is in part because of her lifelong career as a nurse, from 1971 until her retirement in 2012. Balon has since been giving back to the American Cancer Society, as she said they have been tremendous in supporting in her own fight. "I'm hoping that more people will get involved in all these activities, that t