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Amy’s Story

Amy’s Story

UPDATE January 5, 2024 From: Amy 22 years ago on January 2, 2002, I was diagnosed with Stage IIIb Inflammatory Breast Cancer. I was 37 years old, single mom, raising a 9 year old daughter. Wow...what a ride this has been. I have meet some of the most incredible people...

JoAnn’s Story

JoAnn’s Story

Age at diagnosis 33 Year diagnosed 2011 Brief Story I was diagnosed at 29 weeks gestation. Being ER+, PR+, and HER2-, it was in my best interest to start chemotherapy immediately. I had a cesarean section shortly following the first round of chemo; delivered a healthy...

Amanda’s Story

Amanda’s Story

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,...

Evelyn’s Story

Evelyn’s Story

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...

Sara’s Story

Sara’s Story

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 inflammatory breast...

Morningstar’s Story

Morningstar’s Story

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...

Terry’s Story

Terry’s Story

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....

Marilyn’s Story

Marilyn’s Story

Ten years ago I Googled breast cancer on my laptop. I had noticed my left breast had become larger than my right breast for some time, but over the last few weeks it had grown noticeably. In addition, It felt warm to the touch and there were little ridges appearing...

Claudia

Claudia

March 19th marks the beginning of my tenth year since I was diagnosed with Inflammatory Breast Cancer, a rare aggressive form of breast cancer. I had no family history, no risk factors and remember that day like it was yesterday. My Oncologist said, "If we get the...

PROMISE magazine is talking about The IBC Network Foundation!

BTW....did you see? MD Anderson gave our charity a huge honor by featuring our work in their PROMISE magazine. Not a honor given lightly. Promise is published three times a year by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and is dedicated to their  friends...

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