Shortly before I turned 37 and my older daughter turned 3, I was diagnosed with breast cancer: stage III of IV.
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I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.
My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 13 and it was something we weren't really aware of as a family.
Both of my grandmothers were diagnosed with breast cancer - one is a survivor and one passed away.
When I was 41, I found a lump the size of a grape in my right breast. I ended up bald, sick and exhausted from surgeries, chemo and radiation treatments. Ah, but I got to live.
I lost my mom to breast cancer about three years ago, and it has changed me forever.
I had breast cancer. Yeah, I know it's scary.
I had breast cancer. I caught it early.
It wasn't until after the reduction that in the lab work, the pathology, that they found that I had DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ) in my left breast. I was very, very lucky because DCIS is basically stage-zero cancer. So I was very lucky.
I think a lot of people just aren't aware how young you can be and be diagnosed with breast cancer.
I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age, when our emerging sexuality is our central preoccupation, the idea of disfigurement of a breast is particularly horrifying.
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