Lisa Friedman
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? I am a Registered Nurse, and like some women, our children grew up, our careers took off, and I neglected my routine exams. I had no history...
Waltraud Englefield
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? I had absolutely no symptoms! My Stage 1 breast cancer was picked up in a routine mammogram. What tests did your doctor do, and what was...
Sandra Heywood
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? My armpit started to hurt for a few days then out of no where a massive lump appeared on my right breast. I went to Dr who agreed and...
Daphne-Jill Burke
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? I didn't have any at all, both times just found a lump, by accident, and I was under a doctor, visiting regularly. First one benign, the...
Sharon Sims
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? Back pain and then my right breast started getting larger, painful and changed colors. My mammogram showed nothing. My gyno knew better...
Sandra Brink
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? None - it was caught on my annual mammogram. What tests did your doctor do, and what was this experience like? An ultrasound and a biopsy....
Sonja Fischer LeVan
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? My mammo was clear! 8 months later, I found a pea size lump. . . . Had a mammo again and a biopsy and it was cancer stage 2, involved lymph...
Angie Lavelle
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? Two clear mammograms but I found a lump . . . What tests did your doctor do, and what was this experience like? Fast tracked biopsy which...
Sandy Iredale
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? In May of 2004, during a regular routine annual physical, my doc does a breast exam. Feels a 'thickening' that I never noticed. Has me...
Brenda McGovern
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? The left breast changed shape and the nipple inverted. I regular had mammograms and nothing showed on them. What tests did your doctor do,...
Linda Gentry
Breast Cancer
Share your coping strategies
What do you do when you're feeling upset? I pray and read my Bible. I have given this to God and I trust him and am leaning on him and my family for supportWhat keeps you going?...
Linda Gentry
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? None, no symptoms!What tests did your doctor do, and what was this experience like? Well I always get my mammograms every year but the lady...
Diana Tenuta
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? I had the most horrible pain in my left breast but Dr's kept saying it was hormone changes. I insisted on a mammo but was told I was too...
Carine Wolfenden
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? For many years I had pain in my chest, after a previous diagnosis & treatment for breast cancer in 2005, I kept asking for checks....
Pam Jackson
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? I had no symptoms, I had a routine mammogram, and it showed a wee abnormality. When I was sitting, waiting to be called in for the initial...
Eileen Parmar
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? No symptoms just a bi-yearly mammogramWhat tests did your doctor do, and what was this experience like? Ultrasound & biopsy very scary,...
Jacqui Armstrong
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? A hard sizable lump and pain like a boil. Went immediately to GP and arranged FNA. I had regular mammograms prior to this. What tests...
Anne Eustace
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? I had no symptoms, I fell over, broke a rib and found a lump on my side just behind my arm pit. I thought it was a pulled muscle. What...
Mary Adams
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? I didn't have any symptoms. I was planning on retiring at the end of October and decided to have blood work and mammogram done since I...
Deborah Kirkwood
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? I had no symptoms. It had been two and a half years and went in for a routine mammogram. Was prodded by my sister because last fall she...
