I was diagnosed in 2012. I started having problems and due to my family history, I decided to have a double mastectomy.
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My husband was diagnosed in January 2018 with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma cancer. In January 2018, he had pneumonia, and they found cancer with the x-rays.
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If it went to my brain, it’s breast cancer. If it went to my liver, it’s still breast cancer. Now it’s on my spine.
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I was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer in 2011. After a mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation, I was in remission until a hysterectomy in February 2018 discovered there were other things going on.
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Erin 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.
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I was diagnosed with breast cancer at 38 after I had my daughter. My breast wasn’t producing milk even though she was biting it. I asked my doctor about it after I had her in 2006 and my doctor ignored me. I pushed and finally in 2008 I was told I had had METS from the get-go and that is had now spread to my lymph nodes and my liver.
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I was told I had bronchitis and was given antibiotics in January 2018. I remember telling the doctor, “Thank you, I thought you were going to tell me I had lung cancer.”
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“Mr. Marcus, you have kidney, lung, and brain cancer. Stage 4. We are going to monitor you for the next 24 hours but there is not much we can do for you here. You need to go home and start making arrangements. At most, you have two years to live.”
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I had a red circle on the right side of my breast, and I had lost twenty pounds despite the fact that I was not on a diet. When I went to the doctor their tests couldn’t find anything wrong, so I told them to check out this red spot.
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I had colorectal cancer last year. I had surgery that failed and ended up with a permanent colostomy, peritonitis, MRSA, and sepsis.
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My 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.
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I was diagnosed with l breast cancer in 1991. I had a mastectomy, reconstruction, and nine months of chemo. I was so sick. Then almost 25 years later, the exhaustion hit again.
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At the end of October my insurance was dropped. With all that going on — already devastated — I was scheduled for surgery during the first week of November 2018.
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The pain got worse over the coarse of a week and I had trouble breathing.
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Stage IV breast cancer is chronic, progressive and ultimately fatal.
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I was initially diagnosed with stage 2b-3a breast cancer from the biopsy. This was due to size of tumor and regional lymph node involvement. The cancer was estrogen positive HER 2 negative.
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My 41 year old daughter, Danielle, was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer de novo early January, 2019. She had mets to the liver and left iliac crest.
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I was diagnosed with stage 2 triple negative breast cancer in September of 2017. I had a lumpectomy, 4 rounds chemo, and 21 sessions of radiation which I finished in March of 2018. In May of 2018 a lymph node was swelling and by June a spot on my skin had started growing.
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