Hormone Therapy
Routine mammogram found my cancer Hi everyone. My journey began at the end of June 2023 after a routine mammogram which turned into another of my left breast, then a stereotactic biopsy, lumpectomy, then sentinel biopsy. The lumpectomy revealed IDC and the sentinel biopsy showed benign. I’m Er+, Pr+, Her-. Starting hormone blocker treatment after […]
In June 2020, at 28 years old, I was diagnosed with Stage 3, ER-/PR+, HER2+, Invasive Ductal Carcinoma. At the time, I was 2 months postpartum with my son, and my daughter was 2 years old. I was scared to death. The hardest part of being diagnosed was waiting. Waiting for the biopsy results, waiting […]
I was diagnosed with IDC, Stage 2 with BRCA2+ at age 29 after I found a lump on a self breast exam. This was just 3 months after my daughter’s first birthday. I endured dose dense chemotherapy, double mastectomies, radiation, and currently hormone suppression for 10 years. My daughter is what keeps be going everyday. […]
Wow, I thought I was having a tough time until I read some of these stories! I was diagnosed in June of 2017. I had just had a heart attack in March 2017 and was still trying to get a grip on having chest pain and shortness of breath all day, every day. My blood […]
My name is Jamelle Singleton. I am currently fighting Stage 3 Breast Cancer. I have been married for 5 years and I have 3 kids, 1 daughter and 2 bonus children! My husband is a teacher and I work for Cigna. My cancer journey started as a caregiver for my mother. She was diagnosed with […]
On January 2, 2020, I was told that I had a suspicious mass in my breast. I knew right away that I had breast cancer. I was 38 years old, and a mother to a 10-year-old girl. Till then, I had always been healthy, and cancer was something I heard about only on TV. My […]
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 […]
Everyone has a story. For me, there is a certain catharsis in speaking about it…in a way a sense of a burden being lifted. I have always been interested in the study of epidemiology as far as I can remember. Even after college, I continued to focus my career on clinical research and public health. […]
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 […]
In September of 2019 I was diagnosed with Invasive ductal carcinoma in my right breast and nipple. They believed there was a strong chance it, would go to my left also. I was only 26. I have 2 kids, I was a caretaker, my boyfriend was running his cleaning business, and it felt like my […]
I was diagnosed May 3, 2010. I was only 33 years old. Diagnosis: Left Breast IDC, 2CM, grade 3, 2/17 positive nodes, right breast, DCIS, 5mm. There is no cancer in my family, and up until the diagnosis I was an avid runner and cyclist. I had participated in all of the Rock N Roll […]
In July of 2003, I had a discharge coming out of my right nipple. I went to the doctor and at first he told me it was probably a ductile issue and there was nothing to worry about. However, after taking a tissue sample, it came back positive for breast cancer. About two weeks later […]
