Age at diagnosis 27 Year diagnosed 2006 Brief Story Approximately 10 years years ago I was diagnosed with ER/PR negative HER2 positive inflammatory breast cancer. I endured neo-adjuvant chemotherapy (Taxotere), Herceptin infusions for one year, a mastectomy,...
Age of diagnosis 54 Year diagnosed 1999 Brief story I was ER Positive and with surgery found to have nine (9) of twelve (12) lymph nodes fully engaged with the spread of cancer, staging me at 3b. Treatment included chemotherapy for six months, followed by five days of...
Age at diagnosis 46 Year diagnosed 2012 Brief Story It started one day in November with pain in my left breast – a prickling sensation which felt as if the plastic tag from a clothes label had fallen inside my bra. I Googled “breast pain” and found...
Age at diagnosis 29 Year diagnosed 2010 Brief Story I was diagnosed with stage IV left Inflammatory breast cancer with mediastinal lymphadenopathy as well as lymph nodes in the bilateral supraclavicular region. I was on Taxotere, Carboplatin and Herceptin regimen with...
I was diagnosed with TN IBC in my right breast in August of 2007 after months of misdiagnosis. As if an IBC triple negative diagnosis was not enough of a blow, I discovered my left breast had triple negative breast cancer as well. My cancer story started with “Mrs....
