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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I had breast cancer. Yeah, I know it's scary.
I had breast cancer. I caught it early.
I had a lumpectomy. It wasn't that bad. Six and a half weeks of radiation.
I lost my mom to breast cancer about three years ago, and it has changed me forever.
I had a breast reduction.
Shortly before I turned 37 and my older daughter turned 3, I was diagnosed with breast cancer: stage III of IV.
In mid-July 2007, after a routine mammogram, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. As cancer diagnoses go, mine wasn't particularly scary. The affected area was small, and the surgeon seemed to think that a lumpectomy followed by radiation would eradicate the cancerous tissue.
I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.
When the doctor told me I had cancer, I was scared.
I had a lump on my face and had a big cancer thing removed.