Mary E. Scott
"Our worst fears have been confirmed. It's bad, Mary, really, really bad… you have cancer!" I felt as though I had been hit with a with a sledge hammer.
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Susan Schoff
When I first saw my mother after her surgery I was horrified. I was just 16, and I had never seen anything so disfiguring. The doctors had turned her into a mass of scars. I vowed if I ever got breast cancer I would not have surgery. I would not look like my mother.
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Vinda
I would love to tell my story. I don't always think it is laughter that has gotten me through this, and I think the public needs to hear the downs as well as the ups.
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Anne
I was looking forward to turning 50 in July 2002 and having a big party. But in May I had a mammogram…
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Mindy Beers
I ran smack into the arm of the exercise machine, hitting my right breast. My breast didn't hurt, I couldn't detect anything abnormal, it just grew in size. Never in my life would I expect to be diagnosed with IBC.
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Sue Peterson
I am 62 years old. In October 2002 I noticed a bloody discharge from my right breast. About a year earlier, I had noticed a clear discharge. At that time I had a mammogram and physical exam done—both were negative—and my gynecologist explained to me that discharge was not unusual. But when I called him and told him that the discharge was now bloody, he sent me immediately for a mammogram and a sonogram.
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Jeanette P.
I am 33 years old, and I was diagnosed with breast cancer on January 28, 2003. I have invasive ductal carcinoma. According to Norris Cancer Center, the tissue sample showed that it is a non-aggressive cancer.
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Jayne Akizuki
I am 39 years old and was diagnosed in September with invasive ductal carcinoma. As is so often the case, my diagnosis came right out of the clear blue sky, at a time when I was feeling extraordinarily healthy.
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Donna McKinnon
I am 62 years old. I am a mother, a grandmother, and a workaholic who is married to another workaholic. There is no cancer in my family.
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Elizabeth
A poem "The Mastectomy: You and I"
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Kelly
I am 31 years of age and have just been diagnosed with breast cancer. Who expects to have breast cancer at 31?
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Kristina Libby
I am a 29-year-old woman who has just been diagnosed with a very aggressive form of breast cancer. In January I felt a very small lump in my breast and had an ultrasound.
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Phil Arsenault
Phil Arsenault is one of the estimated 1,300 men diagnosed with breast cancer each year. Here's his and his wife Idi's story.
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Pat
I was diagnosed with invasive ductal carcinoma in April 2002, but the story actually started three years earlier.
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Patricia Sauer
On April 26, 2002, I was diagnosed with stage II lobular cancer in my right breast. A week before I had felt a swelling in the lower part of my right breast while doing my self-breast exam at night.
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Phyllis Rollison
I was diagnosed with breast cancer in May of 2002 at the age of 35.
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Jane Payeur
I'm 36 and newly diagnosed. Are you ready for this story? I competed in the Mrs. Florida America Pageant in May 2002. The pageant left me wishing I had better boobs and shorter hair. One needs to be careful for what one wishes for.
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Kerri Fargo
I am a 29-year-old mom of three boys, a 3 1/2 year old and 21-month-old identical twins. My life up until this point has had a lot to do with beating the odds.
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Donna
I was 40 years old and at the top of my career as a nurse and nurse practitioner. I was in perfect health, and prided myself on keeping fit and eating right. Then, I found a lump one day when I was doing breast self-exam.
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Carolyn
In early 2001 I went to the gynecologist for my annual exam and complained to her about some discharge I had been noticing from my left breast. She did a pregnancy test and, when that was negative, said that since I was only 28 and was otherwise healthy I shouldn't really have anything to worry about.
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Diane
When I received the news that I had breast cancer it felt like I had received a death sentence, and I felt as though I was going to fall apart. Then, in moments, I decided NO the cancer is not going to control me, I am going to control the cancer.
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Beth Evans
Just about one month ago, I was diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). I am a very healthy 42-year-old woman with no "history" of breast cancer in my family.
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Bonnie Olson
I am 53 years old and a very active postmenopausal woman. Two years ago we moved to Florida to be closer to my parents because they were getting into their eighties. I was moving there to help them. But now it is me who needs their help.
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Allison Gould
I am 38 years old, married, have a 10-year-old son, and have breast cancer.
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