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Life after cancer Hello. I was diagnosed with stage 1b triple positive breast cancer on July 24th 2021. I never let it beat me down and survived chemo, radiation, a positive lymph node and a double mastectomy and almost a year of immotherapy to attack my positive Her2. After a hysterectomy, menopause was tough. I […]
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 […]
TNBC & Me Hi. I’m Beth; wife, mother of 3, sister, daughter, friend and breast cancer survivor. Breast cancer has been a reoccurring theme in my life since childhood.When I was eleven my paternal grandmother passed away from breast cancer that had metastasized in her brain.Twenty-two years later, I finished weaning my one year old […]
May will mark 19 years since I was diagnosed with breast cancer – the very week I turned 25. I had only been married just over a year, and we were even living with my parents while my husband was in law school. Life had yet to really begin for us. I had a double […]
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 […]
Who knew my very first 5k would be for breast cancer & that I would be walking for me. I’m fixing my oatmeal now as I’m about to head out in 35 minutes to head over to the Seattle Center. I figured I have breast cancer & I live nearby so it’s like an invitation […]
February 2016, I woke up one morning and felt a lump in my left breast. A rather large lump and it hurt so bad. It was bruised and odd. I am a mom of a 2-yr. old, well four kids but the youngest being 2. I honestly thought that maybe holding him on that side, […]
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 […]
“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” Phillipians 4:13 KJV These are the words I live by every day. In September 2008, I was diagnosed with stage IV breast cancer. I was 27 years old and not expecting such devastating news. My husband and I had been married for 7 years. We […]
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 […]
In early February of 2010, I had a bit of slight discomfort while brushing my arm up against my breast one day at work. I went into the restroom and did a self-exam and felt the lump. I called my Dr and after 2 biopsies, 1 failed office biopsy, 1 ultrasound biopsy and genetic testing […]
Young mother’s are not supposed to get cancer! In 1993 I was 26 when I heard those ugly words “you have cancer” I was a young mother of a 2 year old and 5 year old. I remember I just wanted to talk to a long time survivor that was diagnosed when she was young. […]
