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Tonya Bailey

Fighting for a gift My name is Tonya Bailey and I am a breast cancer Survivor and a 29 year kidney transplant recipient. I was diagnosed on July 25, 2023 with invasive carcinoma with ductual and lobular. I had a partial mastectomy with sentinel node on August 17, 2023. Now waiting to get radiation for […]

Beatriz Midlaw

Help to learn from your journey Choosing to learn I was diagnosed on April 2018 ( I was 38 years old )I went to my yearly check up on January , I told my doctor that one of my breast was harder than the other and it was possible that was me working out so […]

Lisa Underwood

Survivor Forever changed November 12, 2020 I was diagnosed with Stage 2 Invasive Lobular Carcinoma breast cancer. I never saw it coming but who ever does. Suddenly my life was turned upside down. The year to follow was filled with surgery, chemo and radiation. As bad as it was I feel lucky to have survived […]

Sheri Albert

I was a perfectly healthy girl, exercised daily, had always been compliant to have my annual checkups and was going in to have my yearly routine mammogram with a breast ultrasound. My life changed forever 3 years ago. I became “1 in 8 Women“ on August 11, 2017 at 11:45am when I got the devastating […]

Marsha Elliott

My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer in August 2009. The first in our family to be diagnosed, she was in her early 60’s. She opted for a bilateral mastectomy and had chemotherapy. She’s done just fine ever since! A few months later in November, I was first diagnosed with breast cancer: lobular, ER+ and […]

Royce Epstein

In August 2014 at age 45 I was diagnosed with breast cancer after a routine mammogram. The radiologist called me into her office to say that there is an abnormally shaped cluster of calcifications in my right breast that to her looked like early cancer. She showed me on the screen what looked like a […]

Donna Reina

Standing strong in the wake of cancer, I found strength through nature, meditation, and hiking. It all happened so fast, I was rushed into surgery before I had a chance to research lobular carcinoma. After surgery I learned that many steps were missed. I had to become my own advocate.  Immediately I turned to meditation […]

Deborah Justice-Place

Why is terminal cancer a blessing? In May of 2012, within 30 days of my mother’s diagnosis of IDC. I learned that I had a 6cm tumor in my left breast. Mine is ILC, ER2 Positive and HER2 Positive. There was not option for a lumpectomy like my mom. I had to have a mastectomy. […]

Cheryl Newman-Tarwater

As the daughter and great-grand-daughter of breast cancer survivors, I knew I was at increased risk of developing breast cancer. My Ashkenazi Jewish heritage also increased the likelihood that I would develop cancer in my lifetime. But I had heard once that breast cancer “skips” a generation, and I clung to that falsehood desperately. Still, […]

Angela Knapp

So there I was, I just went through years of a nasty divorce and child custody battle. Then I was laid off. I was rehired shortly there after and broke my ankle. Then the summer came, my children were returned to me and I felt the lump. It was not very big. I went for […]

Angela Baker

In 2005 I was diagnosed with Lobular Carcinoma in Situ. I had to make a decision very quickly as to what my best treatment option would be. I immediately began to think of my daughter Bayley who was only in the second grade. As I thought about this precious girl who had been in the […]