Cause: Breast Cancer

I found out I have Breast Cancer on March 2, 2011, after “tricking” my doctor into seeing me. He thought that since my test came back negative nine months earlier that I was fine, and did not need to be seen. After “tricking” him into seeing me and having more …

I have all the above. I have been fighting cervical and breast cancer. I also fight chiari, fibromyalgia, degenerative disk disease, seronegative spondyloarthropathy(RA type), adenomyosis and endometriosis, MS, and of course anxiety. I also may have chronic horrible constipation, which the doctor is considering removing my colon. I am only …

I’m Rosemarie, and I am a five year survivor of cancer of the left breast. I was going to retire as a call center agent from a Kaiser Permanente hospital near me, when my doctor called me on vacation, and told me not to retire. He said they found something …

I am 38 year’s old, and proud to say that I am a breast cancer survivor. In July 2011, I was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer.  I thought my world ended when those words came out of my doctor’s mouth. I thought about my only son, my 4 daughter’s, and my grandchildren. …

On my 40th birthday, I had a normal mammogram. Still, I had a nagging feeling that something was wrong. I went for an ultrasound and biopsy soon after. I learned that I had stage four cancer in both breasts. When I went to see the surgeon, he told us that …

On October 27, 2008, as I was showering, I found a lump in my left breast. I called and made an appointment to have my yearly mammogram done early. On November 5, I was told I had breast cancer. I was scared to death. In 2005, my sister, Debby, had …

I was 33 years old, and just newly married. My husband told me one day that I had a lump in my breast. The doctor told me it was a period-related cyst. End of story? No! Two years later, I was pregnant with my son, and I was diagnosed with …

I have been a single mom for thirty years.  The dad would show up in the picture from time to time. My younger year’s started out as a struggle anyway. When I was 37 my mother passed away from Ovarian Cancer, she was only 60. It was only then that …

I went for a routine mammogram in February of 2012. They said there was something ‘different’ and I needed to come back for another mammogram under magnification. Well, I was diagnosed with breast cancer on March 13, 2012. After two lumpectomies and radiation treatment, which I just finished on 10/8/2012, …

I found a small lump, the size of a pencil eraser, on my left breast. I took my time getting to the doctor because I’m only 27. I pointed it out to my OB/GYN during my annual exam. She pointed out a much larger, deeper lump. The next day I …