Breast cancer can be...
Sonia is back. Back among the living.
The 41-year-old mom and grandmother first felt a lump in her breast three years ago at the age of 38. “I was told I was too young to have breast cancer; to stop wearing under wire bras…” Sonia said. “Since there was no history of breast cancer in my family they thought it was most probably a swollen lymph node.”
“I was getting older. My breasts were changing,” she said, believing that the lump was nothing to worry
"I didn't know much about cancer before it happened to me," Valdivia said of her diagnosis. "I had heard some things on TV and in the community, but I was the first person in my family to get it, so it was scary. I didn't...
“My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer Stage 4 in 2003. All we heard was ‘death sentence.’ After countless radiation and chemo treatments, we heard the words we wanted to hear—her cancer was in remission. Almost seven years passed when she started having symptoms where she couldn't eat and had trouble breathing. We had gone through a tough time already because my grandmother passed away November 13th, and we buried her...
Juanita was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer when she was 49 years old. She went from having a tumor in her breast, to having 17 tumors throughout her body, even affecting her blood and lymph nodes. She had been feeling exhausted and sick, but thought it was menopause. When the doctors told her it was stage four, she thought there must be a five, six, seven, and eight. She was all smiling at her first treatment while talking to the other women in the waiting room and
Olga was first introduced to Susan G. Komen for the Cure®, San Diego when supporting a friend and participating in the three-day walk. She started using a self examination card she received as a participant. Olga did her own self-exam every year before she was eligible for annual mammograms, and then performed self exams in between annual appointments.
Eight months before her next scheduled mammogram, Olga found a lump. She saw her doctor right away to get checked,
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