A Seattle woman who said she survived breast cancer three times and helped raise over $400,000 for charity never had cancer, reports revealed Saturday. 
 
 Tracy Dart led fundraising efforts for her “Team Tracy” for a decade before officials in a local Susan G. Komen office found out last week she hasn’t been diagnosed with cancer. 
 
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 A Volkswagen dealership owner who has partnered with Dart in charity work told KOMO-TV that someone from Team Tracy gave him the news Friday. 
 
 “The first words were, ‘Tracy doesn’t have cancer,’” said Matthew Welch of Auburn Volkswagen. He replied, “‘Hooray, she’s cured,’” Welch told the TV station. 
 
 Tracy Dart, 41, never got diagnosed with cancer once but raised money for charity by talking about three different breast cancer bouts, reports revealed Saturday. (VIA KOMONEWS.COM) 
 
 “‘No, she’s never had cancer’ were the second words,” he said. “It just blew our mind.” 
 
 Officials in Komen’s Puget Sound, Wash., office have been in contact with Dart’s family after learning Dart hasn’t had cancer, said spokeswoman Christi Ball Loso. Dart, who was never paid by the breast cancer foundation, raised over $28,500 for Komen personally and Team Tracy members in Seattle and California took in more than $414,000 for the charity, Loso said. 
 
 “We are sad for Tracy and her family and hope that she, and they, will find healing in the days ahead. The Team Tracy community has been a steadfast supporter of our mission to end breast cancer since 2006,” Loso said in an email. “This money has been used as intended - for Komen's research and community health programs.” 
 
 A representative for the Seattle Police Department told the Daily News that police are aware of the situation but didn’t know if they had opened an investigation into Dart. 
 
 Dart helped raise over $400,000 for the Susan G. Komen Foundation. (via komonews.com) 
 
 It wasn’t immediately clear whether Team Tracy collected other donations, and efforts to reach Dart were unsuccessful. Dart is a marketing business partner whose personal story and fundraising have helped her become something of a local celebrity. 
 
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 “It’s hard sometimes to come back and be like, ‘Wow, I’m battling it again,” Dart, 41, told KOMO at an event earlier this year. 
 
 Her personal Twitter account still listed her as a “3x breast cancer survivor” Monday, but a link to a blog for Team Tracy was locked from uninvited users. Facebook pages for Team Tracy, We Heart Tracy Dart and the marketing company, Brand Baby, had been disabled Monday. 
 
 Local car dealership owner, Matthew Welch, stressed that Team Tracy had done a lot of good in spite of Dart's faked cancer. (via komonews.com) 
 
 The West Seattle Herald published a profile of Dart in 2010, when she said she had been in her latest bout for two years and had put together a team of 21 people for Komen’s annual Race for the Cure. 
 
 “I've tried so hard to find a good reason why I had to go through this, why this has this happened to me, and why I am now having to go through this a second time,” Dart said. “All I can think of is that I am meant to get out and spread the word that breast cancer doesn't just affect older women.” 
 
 Welch, the car dealership owner, stressed that Team Tracy had done “so much good” in his interview with the TV station. 
 
 “I wouldn’t say we’re angry,” Welch said. “I would say she needs help. And we hope that she gets it.” 
 
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 ON A MOBILE DEVICE? WATCH THE VIDEO HERE. ||||| SEATTLE -- Officials from Susan G. Komen confirmed Monday they learned a well known cancer survivor and advocate from West Seattle may have faked the disease. 
 
 
 
 A spokesperson from Komen headquarters in Dallas said a family member told them Tuesday Tracy Dart has never had cancer. Word of the cancer claim sent shock waves through West Seattle where Dart has been a fixture. 
 
 For more than 10 years, Tracy Dart has been a champion of cancer awareness. Over the years she presented herself as a cancer patient, survivor and a fierce fundraiser. 
 
 Komen said Dart and her team raised $414,000 since 2006 and that Dart herself donated $28,000. 
 
 West Seattle businesses not only know her, but some donated to her cause. Everyone at West 5 restaurant knows Dart. 
 
 Rumors of the cancer claims started circulating on Friday, that's when West 5 bartender Bobby Wright heard about it. 
 
 "It was a shock to find out," said Wright. 
 
 Dart is such a fixture in West Seattle that one couple lunching at West 5 said they consider her the unofficial mayor of West Seattle. 
 
 "She was a regular for a while, last time I talked to her she said the cancer metastasized to her bones and she wasn't going to make it, so i felt horrible for her, " said Wright. "Then I hear all this." 
 
 Questions surfaced last week when a spokesperson for Susan G. Komen headquarters in Dallas said the organization got a call from Dart's family. Spokesperson Andrea Rader said a family member told them Dart never had cancer. 
 
 Rader said the family said it made the discovery after Dart was admitted to the hospital recently for an unknown reason. 
 
 News spread quickly among Team Tracy, a team formed by Dart to raise money for Komen to use for research and services, with the hope of finding a cure for cancer. 
 
 Matthew Welch, who helped raise money for Team Tracy said he was dumbfound when he heard the news from a Team Tracy member over the weekend. 
 
 "The first words were 'she doesn't have cancer," Welch said. "'She never had cancer' were the second words, and it just blew my mind." 
 
 He stressed it's important to remember all the good that's come from Dart's efforts. 
 
 Team Tracy members told KOMO on Saturday they immediately dissolved the group. Komen insists all money raised by Team Tracy went to research and services, not Dart. 
 
 A West Seattle business owner, who wants to remain anonymous, says she had a fundraiser 2 years ago for Dart. 
 
 "After it was all said and done, I wrote her a check and gave her money from sales to the party," said the business owner. "It's baffling. Obviously the second I heard it, at first I was like, this doesn't seem right, then my mind went to where did the money go that I donated, but it's more heartbreaking to me that there is no cure for cancer than that someone would fake that they had cancer." 
 
 The Dart family has declined repeated requests for comment.
– A cancer awareness advocate and fundraiser known as the unofficial mayor of West Seattle and who for the past decade has branded herself as a cancer patient and survivor may have faked her illness the entire time, KOMO reports. A rep from Susan G. Komen headquarters in Dallas confirmed the organization was informed by a family member that not only does Tracy Dart not have cancer now, she never did. "Komen was notified of this situation last week and has been in contact with Tracy's family," an email statement to the West Seattle Herald reads. "We are sad for Tracy and her family and hope that she, and they, will find healing in the days ahead." Dart's family reportedly found out she had lied about her cancer when she had to go to the hospital recently for a liver problem and the hospital couldn't find records of her supposed three bouts with the disease, "reliable sources" tell the paper. Members of the group Dart founded to raise money for Komen are stunned. "The first words were 'she doesn't have cancer,'" Team Tracy participant Matthew Welch tells KOMO. "'She never had cancer' were the second words, and it just blew my mind." But he notes Team Tracy, which has now been dissolved over the news, did a lot of good—and the Komen statement, which points out Dart never personally received money from the group, says Team Tracy's California and Seattle members raised more than $414,000 for Komen since 2006, while Dart herself raised more than $28,000. "I wouldn't say we're angry," Welch tells KOMO. "I would say she needs help, and I hope she gets it." A Seattle Police Department rep tells the New York Daily News that they're in the loop, but it's unclear whether an investigation has been opened to look into possible illegal activity. (A beauty queen was accused of faking leukemia.)