Hi everyone, my name is Kara. Here is my Fight Like a Girl Story. It all started in 2016, when I found a lump in my left breast. As you all know, you worry, go to the doctor, and they send you off for a mammogram. Well, that is when …
Read More »Lori’s Fight Like a Girl Story (Breast Cancer)
On June 20, 2013, I was diagnosed with Stage 3 HER2+ Breast Cancer. On July 15, I started 16 rounds of chemotherapy. I had four rounds of dense chemo, and then I had another 12 rounds of Taxol. The week of Thanksgiving was my last chemo. Four days after my …
Read More »Sandra’s Fight Like a Girl Story (Breast Cancer)
In 2015, I found a lump. I had the right side of my breast removed and then had chemo on Tuesday. My mammogram came back fine. I went to the doctor, who found more of the lump. I am now waiting to get it removed, and then we will take …
Read More »Vicki’s Fight Like a Girl Story (Breast, Lung, and Brain Cancer)
My name is Vicki Oliva. I am 57-years-old and an 11-year survivor of breast cancer. Thankfully, due to regular mammograms, it was caught early, and I was able to have a lumpectomy and 7 weeks of radiation, plus 5 years on tamoxifen. Early detection is key for any cancer. Last …
Read More »Kathy’s Fight Like a Girl Story (Breast Cancer)
I was called while Christmas shopping in December 2015 and told that I had cancer. In some ways I knew it long before I heard the words. I went into automatic denial. It took me 3 months to accept it and then to find a surgeon I could trust. We …
Read More »Julie’s Fight Like a Girl Story (Breast Cancer)
Hi! My name is Julie, and I’m currently 54-years-old. I was married for 33 years, and I was divorced in Oct. 2015. I found out a few months later he had been cheating. A few months after that in April 2016, I was diagnosed with stage 3 IDC. I did …
Read More »Cora’s Fight Like a Girl Story (Breast Cancer)
“And when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.” Stage II A multifocal, multi-centric left breast CA ER/PR+/HER2-Procedure: 2 Lumpectomies, 4 rounds of chemotherapy, bilateral mastectomy and tissue expander to silicone implant reconstruction. My sister had been diagnosed with breast cancer in 2009, so I was …
Read More »Churee’s Story (Breast Cancer)
At 27, I was diagnosed with breast cancer, BRCA gene, HER2-positive, Stage 2. So I went through 8 rounds of aggressive chemotherapy and 35 rounds of radiation, a double radical mastectomy, 2 reconstruction surgeries, and a total hysterectomy in a year and a half’s time. Every doctor assured me it …
Read More »Jasimine’s Fight Like a Girl Story (Hodgkin’s Lymphoma)
Hi my name is Jasimine and I am 16. I am a Hodgkin’s Lymphoma survivor. I found out I had cancer in Feb of 08. I went through 9 rounds of chemo in 9 months on 3 different regiments. After the chemo they told me and my mom that the …
Read More »Making Long Hospitalizations More Pleasant
Perhaps one of the most difficult aspects of leukemia treatment is the long hospitalizations most patients must endure. This is because the chemotherapy given to most people with leukemia is very strong and wipes out much of their bone marrow, leaving just the stem cells behind. It takes several weeks …
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