The United Kingdom is presently celebrating Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, and does so every March, while the United States observes this initiative throughout September. Both observances are to support ovarian…
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Breast Cancer
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Best advice? Go into treatment with a sense of gratitude. Take care of yourself and surround yourself with people you love. Don’t put off seeing a doctor if you feel…
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Cancer, radiation, chemotherapyWellbeing
Seven Surgeries, Two Years: Determination and the Reconstruction Process
I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008. First, I want to say that my mother had a mastectomy of her left breast when she was about 47 years old. …
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I had a routine mammogram in January at Lexington Medical Center in West Columbia, South Carolina. I had just celebrated my 46th birthday. I hadn’t felt any lumps and had…
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Cancer, radiation, chemotherapyWellbeing
Keeping It Normal: Living with Cancer from a Position of Strength
How do you keep living while you battle a disease that focuses your thoughts and energy on the possibility of dying? That question was front of mind for me in…
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Protocols were fairly consistent for early detection back in 2001 when I was diagnosed with invasive ductal carcinoma Stage 1 breast cancer. I discovered the lump myself and had a…