Survivor Stories & Information

My name is Laura Parker, and I am a breast cancer survivor! I had two types of breast cancer, the most common AND the most rare: DCIS and Paget’s disease of the breast. It’s become a passion of mine to spread the word and make it more known about Paget’s …

I was 42 years old when I was diagnosed with Stage 4 Breast Cancer.  Cancer has never run in my family. I had chemo for five months then a double mastectomy and 39 rounds of radiation during 2012. I had reconstruction surgery with a horrible outcome. I had several surgeries …

My cancer was found by accident after passing out one evening. I was rushed to the hospital, and the CTA (computed tomography angiography) of my chest showed multiple [abnormal] lymph nodes everywhere. After a biopsy, I saw my first oncologist. He told me it was Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma-Stage 4 and …

In 2012, my husband was diagnosed with acute kidney disease w/renal failure. He was driving a truck at the time, making 10-day trips from Texas to New Mexico. We would go to his nephrologist each time we came in off the truck. On April 1, 2012, I started my period. …

I was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2009. After a double mastectomy and many trips for chemotherapy, I was in remission two years later. Five years and five months after that, the cancer came back behind my sternum. Radiation and chemo! Two years later, at my yearly scan, I …

I am now a stage 3 ovarian cancer survivor since April 8, 2011. At age 50, I had never missed my yearly female exam. I complained to my doctor about a painful knot in my pelvic area and pain down my leg. They sent me to the hospital, where I …

I was never really open about expressing my thoughts and takeaways of my illness until recently, and I think it is important to share how I feel about it. I was born with really small kidneys which medically is referred to as renal dysplasia. Unfortunately, I did not find this …

In 2015 at the age of 45, I was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic adenocarcinoma of my colon. I was told as a woman this was unusual. The cancer, once it was finally diagnosed, was in its late stages having perforated my colon. Although I had a colostomy to save …

In 1991 at age 34, I was diagnosed with breast cancer, six months after my mom. She had a mastectomy, but no chemotherapy. Me: mastectomy, chemo, surgery. I survived, for 25 years. My mom passed on April 3, 2016. I had been going to doctors because I was not feeling …

I was diagnosed at age 42: triple negative breast cancer. I had a double mastectomy and four rounds of chemotherapy. Then 2011, I had reconstruction and a hysterectomy in a 10-hour surgery Nipple reconstruction failed four times and I even got MRSA. I gave up on nipple reconstruction or tattooing. Just …