Genetic Mutation
Before my Breast Cancer Journey began on January 25, 2019, I was very diligent with my Breast Health and Self Examinations. As a young adult I was diagnosed with Fibrocystic Breast and had very dense Breast Tissue, so I began having Mammograms in my 20’s. I had to watch my caffeine intake and do self […]
LOVE YOURSELF TO LIVE LIFE: Friends, I am Neelam A. Shinde and 44 years of age. I would like to share my journey with a small hope that my story might be inspiring and can be a force of motivation for all those women who are battling with cancer today. I am a breast cancer […]
In 2008 I received a positive BRCA test result. After losing my mother and never meeting my grandmother due to breast cancer, I felt as though I had been informed there was a ticking time bomb inside my chest. I felt I needed to act immediately to defuse it. My first option was to “watch […]
Two days after my 57th birthday, my wife noticed that the nipple on my left breast was dimpled. I contacted the surgeon who had just removed a cyst from my back, and he insisted that I have a biopsy as soon as possible. A few days after the biopsy, I had a mastectomy of my […]
I’m motivated by God! My story, my testimony, my cancer. A few months before my birthday I went to have my annual checkup done and everything was normal. Then I was told it’s time for a mammogram, the thing that most women hate. This was my first one so I put the mammogram off since […]
My name is Rebecca and I am a survivor. I tell people that I don’t think my story is that extraordinary, I just think I was very fortunate and lucky. I was 36 when I was diagnosed in 2006, single mom to 18 month old Zach. I was scheduled to get my baseline mammogram at […]
I grew up being afraid of cancer. I was 11 years old when my Dad was diagnosed with colon cancer and was given 2 months to live. As I got older and learned more about what happened to him, the more it terrified me that I could be next. I started experiencing cancer anxiety in […]
I was diagnosed with breast cancer in June, 2007 after a clean mammogram just a month earlier. I found a lump under my arm right before Mother’s Day that year and my heart sank. I knew something was wrong. A few weeks later after multiple tests trying to find the source of the cancer, I […]
Is that a lump? I was in the shower when I felt a mass on my right breast. Having a history of breast cancer I decided to error on the side of caution and have it checked out. My primary care physician thought it deserved a further look so she put in a referral for […]
It was just a annual Obgyn visit, when my Dr. Asked me about a lump right near my rib cage. She told me that I had missed my June 2008 mammogram . I had a family emergency and never reschedule it . I have been getting mammogram since I was thirty because my mother and […]
At age 30 I found out I carry the BRACA I mutation. My breast cancer risk was 84% with a 20% chance of relapse. My paternal grandmother, and aunts died of breast cancer. My other aunt died of ovarian cancer. I refused to wait for cancer to come for me! I had both breasts removed […]
I knew I was not brave enough. But did I really have a choice? It’s ironic how when you face your own mortality, your internal clock speeds up. The tick tock inside me was rapid fire because I had many breast cancer risk factors that were piling up that was going to force me to […]
