Cancer

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 …

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.  …

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 …

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 …

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 …