Fertility Preservation
How Cancer Changed My Life My name is Christine Elliott and I am currently 34 years old. In August of 2020, I was diagnosed with Stage 3 Breast cancer (triple positive). I was 31 years old at the time. I underwent 5 months of chemo, 2 surgeries, 1 year of Herceptin, and 21 days of […]
I was diagnosed with triple negative, metaplastic breast cancer in February 2017 at the age of 32. I underwent a bilateral mastectomy, expander, fertility preservation, 8 rounds of chemotherapy, and finally reconstruction. I had no family history and no BRCA genetic mutations, so breast cancer and treatments were very foreign to me. I had no […]
Diagnosed at 23 February 2, 2015 – As I sit in the general surgeons office awaiting a biopsy of a huge tumor in my right breast, I couldn’t help but to panic. It was 1 day after I turned 23, and 23 days before my baby girls 1st birthday. February 4th – aka “World Cancer […]
My Personal Pink time My name is Tammy Myers and I am an advertising art director, photographer, designer, and most recently, I am a blogger from Grand Rapids, MI with a background in healthcare and retail marketing and a driving passion for cause-based work. My Journey with breast cancer really began when I was just […]
Being so young, still at the beginning of my career as a registered nurse, focusing on ways to better myself for my patients, the last thing on my mind was thinking I had cancer, but that quickly changed. On March 29th, 2019 I received the news that no 25-year-old wanted to hear, “You have invasive […]
Love and happiness are the two main things that have given me strength to battle breast cancer twice before the age of 29. I was first diagnosed July 23rd, 2010, the day after my 24th birthday, with Stage 2A breast cancer. I remember being in complete shock when I was diagnosed. I have no family […]
Brittany Corbitt At the end of April 2014, I noticed a lump in my left breast, I told my boyfriend and he insisted that I go get it checked out. I put it off thinking it was nothing and I thought the lump went away. About 2 weeks later, I noticed it again. I called […]
