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Stage 2 estrogen negative progesterone negative her2 positive Hello- My story began in 2012 when I was 34 years old and 30 weeks pregnant with twins. I was diagnosed on July 17th 2012 and gave birth at 30 weeks on July 19th 2012. I had a bi lateral mastectomy on July 31st 2012 and started […]
WINNING WOUNDED I was diagnosed with Invasive ductal carcinoma in my right breast in March, 2022 at the age of 55. I was devastated. Though breast cancer runs in my family, you never imagine it could also happen to you. I was diagnosed with Stage 1A HER2+ (ER+/PR-) Breast Cancer with a mass in my […]
Cancer Didn’t Kill Me, It Changed Me Through Faith Never in a million years would I have thought that my life story would include several chapters about cancer. In 2017, I was diagnosed with Invasive Ductile Carcinoma ER+/PR- and HER2+ in my left breast. I found the lump during a self-breast exam. I hoped it […]
I felt a lump when I was pregnant with my second daughter and it was dismissed by my OB/GYN since she couldn’t feel it during a “normal” physical exam. She assured me that it was probably just a blocked milk duct. As I was sitting on the delivery table nursing my newborn, I was handling […]
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 […]
My Husband Gives Me Strength I was initially diagnosed with stage II breast cancer December 30, 2010. The day before my 31st birthday. I discovered a lump while showering, which is embarrassing because I want to say I was super vigilant and found it! That wasn’t the case. I had had a lump tested in that […]
Being In Control When You Are Not In Control I found a lump on 7/27/2014. I decided to go for my OB/GYN visit and tell the doctor of my new discovery (I missed last year). According to the OB/GYN, it’s dense tissue; however, I asked for her to feel again and I believe there was […]
Last June at age 34 I went to my annual women’s exam I mentioned to my OB that I had occasionally felt a knot in my left breast he felt it too and thought it was nothing. Probably a fibroid or something I had been of birth control for 6 months as my husband I […]
Breast Cancer was definitely not the road I was expecting to travel this year or really EVER. I always knew with family history there was a possibility but you never really believe it will happen to you. Well it has and I WILL conquer and beat this nasty cancer. On June 7, 2016, age 40, […]
Progress This is my third time surviving. I almost made it to a 20th year anniversary come Valentine’s Day 2015 but this past August was diagnosed again , in the same breast, but with Triple negative-invasive ductal carcinoma. 20 yrs. ago I knew I was ER/PR negative but Her2 wasn’t around then-it is now!-That is […]
From Breast Cancer to Baby at 28 My name is Chiara and I am a 28 year old breast cancer survivor. Breast cancer doesn’t run in my family, I don’t have either of the BRCA gene mutations, and I was in overall good health at the time of my diagnosis. I went from feeling a […]
