Cause: Breast Cancer

I have been blessed so far in my life to be cancer free, but one person especially close to me has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Cookie, my son’s father’s older sister, adopted my son. I was 9 months pregnant, 2 weeks away from delivery. I was alone and I …

Never at age 29 did I think I’d be battling a woman’s worst nightmare. April 4th, right before my 30th birthday, I was diagnosed with breast cancer stage 2. I have two young boys; soon to be 12 & 10. I not once stopped to think about me; I fight …

Sometimes being strong is facing the one thing you fear the most. I am 25 years old and was diagnosed with Stage 1 breast cancer. Fortunately, this past July 2012, I beat it. After my lumpectomy I tried to bury my thoughts, feelings and the fact that I actually had …

I am a mother, wife,  grandmother and a breast cancer survivor. I was diagnosed with breast cancer in September of 2011. I had a bilateral mastectomy with recon. I have one more surgery in October, and then my reconstruction will be complete. I am a cancer free patient of Memorial Sloan Kettering …

Here I am at 38; a widow, a mother of 2 teenagers, and I just got hit with the news that I have breast cancer…and it’s stage 4!!! All I could think was ‘What are my kids going to do without me? They lost their father, they can’t lose me …

My mother, who is also by best friend, battled and won with God and our families help, stage III breast cancer, 15 years ago. She had a lumpectomy, 33 treatments of radiation, and 5 months of chemo. Life had got back to “normal”  but the thought of cancer always was …

I am 30 years old. I am a mom, wife, daughter, friend, and much more. When I was 27, I felt a large lump in my right breast and a smaller lump in my left breast. I was concerned and limited with the insurance I had at the time, but …

When our daughter, Lori, at the age of 34 was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer, we were so frightened. Little did we know that our world would change just as hers had. Being that Lori lived in Alabama, I wanted to be able to help care for her much as …

In May of 2011 at the young age of 49 I went for my yearly check up and mammogram. Everything came back normal, there was no sign of anything wrong. Four weeks later when I was doing my monthly breast exam myself I found a lump in my right breast. …

I am 37 years old and have recently been diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer. The past 3 months have been a whirlwind! One of the most important people in my life was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in April and earned her wings in June. My grandmother was such an …