VALDOSTA — Angela Tooley-King has to face her battle yet again.

After almost 10 years of being cancer free, King has been diagnosed with stage 1A hormonic breast cancer.

King was first diagnosed with early Stage 2 breast cancer Aug. 22, 2008. She went into remission in September 2009. Both cancers occurred in the right breast.

“This faith is very much getting me through, now, because I’m a little more stronger than I was the first time,” she said.

King, who was on her way to Bible study when she learned of her second diagnosis, said she was devastated to learn she must endure cancer again.

“I just felt like I trusted God for this not to happen, but then you have to also know that just because something like this happened again doesn’t mean your faith was small or anything like that,” she said.

This is an opportunity for King to reprove her faith, she said. She said she has become numb.

“Just trying to go through it and keep moving,” King said. “If it never leaves my body, I wouldn’t doubt that the Lord can heal me. … I still trust the Lord through it all, no matter what.”

She wasn’t always this hopeful on her journey, but she said as long God is walking with her, she’s OK.

Her breast cancer was discovered through an annual mammogram. On June 19, she had a bilateral mastectomy during which both of her breasts were removed.

It was her second cancer surgery, having went through a lumpectomy in September 2008. For the moment, she has opted out of reconstruction surgery.

“I’m not sure that I want to do that because when I got diagnosed this time, it was devastating, and I was like I don’t want no breasts,” she said.

King said following her surgery, she never had feelings of being less than a woman. She said she is still considering whether she would like to have breasts again.

Aside from battling breast cancer, King must brave lymphedema in her right arm and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

“You cope with it because you’re trying to live. Everything goes through my faith, and I try not to complain a lot. I rely on my faith because, if I didn’t, I don’t know what I would do, and I don’t even want to think about it,” she said.

Despite all of King’s struggles, she still works to be an inspiration to others through King of King Breast Cancer Foundation.

The foundation hosts an annual gathering that unites cancer survivors and their caregivers.

“I keep fighting to live,” King said. “Thanks to my immediate family and church family, Valdosta Community Church, for standing by me in a time such as this.”