I have been in treatment since 2013. In 2012, I had cervical cancer and had a total Hysterectomy. I was misdiagnosed and told the lump in my breast was calcium and the size of a pea. In 2013, it was taken out. It was the size of a baseball - stage 3.
Read MoreI was diagnosed with stage IV metastatic transitional cell collecting duct cancer (renal) in 2013. I have been forced to continue working for employers with adverse cultures and aspirations to my own as a result of the fear of being left without continued choice of treatment which comes with insurance only offered by group plans, and being able to seek treatment at the facilities of my choosing.
Read MoreI was diagnosed with melanoma in 2015. It started on my nostril and looked like a blood blister so I just ignored it thinking it would go away. My mom and dad got concerned about it and made me go to a dermatologist (I was 53 at the time and my mom and dad had to make me go. Pitiful isn’t it).
Read MoreI was diagnosed with de novo Stage IV breast cancer in July 2019 after finding a lump in the shower. It had already spread to my bones and liver. My annual mammograms showed nothing, including the one from October 2018.
Read MoreErin was diagnosed with stage II breast cancer in 2013 at the age of 33. Four and a half years later, it came back in her lungs.
Read MoreMy husband was diagnosed with Stage 3 Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC). He had a total left nephrectomy on our 35th wedding Anniversary on Sept. 10, 2012. At that time there was no treatment that was available.
Read MoreThe pain got worse over the coarse of a week and I had trouble breathing.
Read MoreStage IV breast cancer is chronic, progressive and ultimately fatal.
Read MoreI was diagnosed with Stage IV lobular breast cancer in November, 2017, when abnormalities were found during a routine bone density scan.
Read MoreMy cancer diagnosis came in June of 2016. My diagnosis was uterine serous cancer, an aggressive uterine cancer. I had a hysterectomy in June.
Read MoreThis diagnosis has impacted my life tremendously. I am still going back in my mind thinking about what could have happened to prevent this second diagnosis.
Read MoreI was transferred to UCC in Chicago on November 13, 2018, and have seen ENT so far. My next appointment will be the December 1 for the gyno team. This is ridiculous and never-ending.
Read MoreI was first diagnosed with stage 2 on my birthday in 1998. In 2010, it came back in my left lung, in 2014, went to the bone, in 2017 to the liver.
Read MoreI was 29 when my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. Six months later I was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer. I underwent a lumpectomy, chemo, & radiation. 13 years later I tested positive for BRCA1.
Read MoreI'm a 56-year-old mother of three and a grandmother of five. I was diagnosed July 2017 with breast cancer. The following month, I went to stage 4 metastatic breast cancer after a CAT scan revealed it had gone to my lung.
Read MoreI was diagnosed with metastatic endometrial cancer in September 2018. It has only been found in my right abdominal wall at the port sight of the DaVinci robotic assisted surgery for my endometrial cancer in June 2017.
Read MoreWatch Lauren share her mom’s journey with metastatic ovarian cancer.
Read MoreI was diagnosed with gynecological cancer in June of 2012. I sailed through a robotic hysterectomy and radiation even forgetting I was a cancer patient.
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