Debbie
I am a mother of two young children. I had breast pain near the end of my cycle, and called the Ob/Gyn. (The pain was so bad it would hurt just going down the steps.)
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Kim Bowerman
Shortly before I turned 35, I began to make plans for my first yearly mammogram. My mother is a survivor, having been diagnosed at 37 herself.
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Lynn
We never think we will hear the words, "I am 95% certain you have breast cancer."
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Monica Anderson
I am a 31-year-old, single, African-American female with what I understood as no family history of cancer until I was diagnosed with breast cancer the day after New Years.
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Sybil Brabner
I am a 37-year-old breast cancer patient. My type of cancer usually kills a woman within three years. I was diagnosed in January 1999, Stage IIB, (ER-, PR-, P53+, Her/2-) nuclear grade 3 (Bloom and Richardson).
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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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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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Shelly Slick
I was diagnosed about one year ago with breast cancer. During initial testing my doctor insisted that a mammogram would not work on a woman my age—34. That's how my cancer came to be confirmed by an ultrasound and core needle biopsy. I then underwent a partial mastectomy and axillary node dissection to remove a 1.8cm tumor and two of nine positive nodes.
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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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Annis Karpenko
June 15, 1990: The telephone rings and it is my surgeon. The needle biopsy he had done earlier in the week has come back "red flagged." Although we had planned to remove what he thought was a fibroidadenoma in August, he was now booking me for surgery in four days. I was to report to his office the next day for pre-op orders to take to the hospital. When I hung up the phone, I was sitting on the floor, and I wasn't sure how I got there.
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Denise Davis
I've been online, reading the many stories from survivors of all ages and walks of life. I, too, am a survivor of breast cancer. I was diagnosed in November 2001; had a lumpectomy and then a mastectomy in December 2001; began four months of heavy chemotherapy in January 2002; had 33 treatments of radiation that ended in June 2002; and now will take tamoxifen for five years.
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Gail Cleveland
No one wants to be a statistic, but sooner or later we all become one, in one form or another, whether we like it or not. However, not all statistics turn out to be so bad—and herein lies the tale of a very good statistic.
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Kim
I'm a 32-year-old woman with no family history of breast cancer. I actually have a family history that is remarkably cancer-free.
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Michelle
I was diagnosed with stage IIB breast cancer at the age of 32. After my surgery I found out that I had 20 positive lymph nodes out of 20 tested. What a big blow that was. I was just getting used to the idea I had breast cancer to begin with, now my doctor was telling me how sorry he was.
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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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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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Cissy Swaim
I am 28 years old, and married to the most wonderful man and blessed with a one-year-old daughter. In February 2001 I found a lump in my breast, made a phone call, and was sent for a mammogram.
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Kris Lavario
I was scheduled for my first mammogram in December 1999 but I decided not to go because my breasts were painful. Three months later I found out I was pregnant.
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Lori Kennedy
In October 2000 I gave birth to my first child. In July 2001 I went to my Ob/Gyn for my six-month post-partum checkup, and because my left breast was leaking a brown discharge…
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Lynn Nishimura-Zelske
I was diagnosed at age 24 with DCIS…
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Laura Lawson
It was spring of 1991 when I found a lump in my left breast. I went to my doctor and he told me not to worry about it. I remember asking him, "Are you sure? Shouldn't I go and see a surgeon?" He said that given my age and the fact that there was no history of breast cancer in the family that I shouldn't worry. So I didn't.
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Jeanie
I had had bouts of insomnia for over a month when I woke up in the wee hours of January 23, 2001. Most people drink warm milk, read a boring book, or watch television if they can't sleep. Of all the possible home remedies for a sleepless night, I did a breast self-exam!
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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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Allison Gould
I am 38 years old, married, have a 10-year-old son, and have breast cancer.
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