Janis Fitzgerald
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? The appearance of my breast began to change. I had 3 normal mammograms before. Looking in the mirror and lifting my arms I saw a change,...
Peggi Breen
Breast Cancer
How Breast Cancer Impacted My Role as a Mom
How has breast cancer affected your role as a mom? Mine was diagnosed in 1980 after my 1st baby was born. I noticed and felt a lump under my left armpit. My dear mom I lost in...
Shelia McLaughlin
Breast Cancer
How Has Breast Cancer Impacted Your Role as a Mom?
How has breast cancer affected your role as a mom? It has honestly made me respect my 16 year old daughter so much. She is my rock!Did your children express fears, confusion?...
Susana Carias
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? I had worked out "too hard" at the gym the previous week. I thought the small lump under my axilla/top of my left breast was a pulled...
Ria Di Salvo
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? 1st cancer, I had no symptoms! I went in for a yearly Mammogram! They were minute cancer cells. Get checked every year and when you question...
Hayley Rushen
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? I had pain in my ribs mostly on my left side. What tests did your doctor do, and what was this experience like? I was referred to the breast...
Kathy Hibbard
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? Routine mammogram What tests did your doctor do, and what was this experience like? ultra sound, lumpectomy, BRACA Test, single mastectomy,...
Susan Forday
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? Felt like a strained muscle earlier. Busy so hadn't checked my breasts for weeks. What tests did your doctor do, and what was this experience...
Carol Anne Byrne
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? I had no symptoms known to me. I was 31 & separating from my soul mate & love of my life as, after 16 years, I could no longer...
Janice Broadbent
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? I was sitting, watching TV and then I rubbed the very top of my breast and discovered a hard lump on my RH side. What tests did your doctor...
Kathryn Butterworth Levasseur
Breast Cancer
My coping strategies
What do you do when you're feeling upset? Because I refused to take ownership of this cancer, and just said it was a diagnosis, I refused to get upset or allow this diagnosis to...
Kathryn Butterworth Levasseur
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? I had no symptoms whatsoever. One day while in the shower I felt something. I ignored it, thinking it was due to my cycle. Checked again...
Helen Pitt
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? I had no symptoms. I had no signs. I examined my breasts regularly but my cancer was deep in my breast and I could not feel it. What tests...
Debbie Palozzo
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? I had bronchitis that wouldn't quit (otherwise very healthy). What tests did your doctor do, and what was this experience like? Doctor suggested...
Holly Green Copeland
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? Changes in skin, lump in tissueWhat tests did your doctor do, and what was this experience like? Mammogram, and ultrasound initially, then...
Denise Tolbert
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? After a morning shower in August 2016, as I was drying off, I felt a lump. I wasn't too worried because I'd had a clear mammogram in April...
Dorothy Mitchell
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? No symptoms. They were discovered on a mammogram (dcis) 10 years ago, I had a lumpectomy, then last year on a pet scan for melanoma. What...
Chantal Young
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? I am 53, single, no children. No history of breast cancer in my family. I don't drink or smoke. I am a bit over weight and at the time...
Rachael Attiwill
Breast Cancer
Chemotherapy followed by radiotherapy
What treatment plan have you tried, or currently trying? Chemo and radiotherapy. How do you juggle day to day life with your treatment? I have a day off work for treatment and...
Rachael Attiwill
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? A niggling area on my left breast near my nipple. I found a lump but it kept moving around and sometimes prominent, other times not and...
