Kim Haggard
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? Annual mammogram that I was called back to look at after a week. No symptoms at all - no lumps or bumps. What tests did your doctor do,...
Beverly Ashby
Breast Cancer
Share your coping strategies
What do you do when you're feeling upset? Try to count my blessings and I have many. I tend to feel sorry for myself, and then get up and keep going. I am still fighting and...
Beverly Ashby
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? I found a lump in my right breast, had a double mastectomy and complete rebuild. But for 6 months or longer, I complain of pain on my left...
Sandy King
Breast Cancer
Lifestyle changes that you have acquired since your diagnosis
What lifestyle changes have you made since your diagnosis? The chemo took a lot out of me. I was unable to do much for three to four weeks. I lost a lot of weight which I needed...
Sandy King
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? No symptoms just went for my annual mammo. Due to crazy schedule, I was a few months past my annual date. What tests did your doctor do,...
Fran Crompton
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? At first, I didn't have any symptoms. I had a regular mamogramme and was called back. After a wide local excision, which couldn't get...
Carol Williams
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? When I would lay on my left side it would hurt, I was in the shower one day and decided to do a self breast exam. I found a lump on my...
Karen Ludwig Chiarelli
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? January 9, 2018 my gyno found enlarged lymph nodes under my right arm. What tests did your doctor do, and what was this experience like?...
Christine Bell
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? On the last day of June, 2000 I was diagnosed with breast cancer, it was just 3 months before I turned 45. My mothe, had just died from...
Kathy Meyer
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? I had a lump on my left breast for 5-6 years, but routine mammograms never showed anything unusual, even with ultrasound, all that time....
Diane Turner
Breast Cancer
Tell us the day you were diagnosed with breast cancer
Share what happened on the day you were diagnosed. On the day I was diagnosed I pretty much knew the outcome, because I had made an appointment with my gp for the Friday, I got...
Diane Turner
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? I found a lump. I waited probably two months (silly woman) and then made an appointment with my gp. She said she couldn't find anything...
Robyn Webb
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? Regular Mammogram check found my lump and I was called back for second test and BC was confirmedWhat tests did your doctor do, and what...
Barb Fraser
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? NoneWhat tests did your doctor do, and what was this experience like? Mammogram CT Scan Biopsy after diagnosis. Then, surgery. Upon learning...
Sandra Fairbrother
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? I had a cough that I had for two years. Not related to the cancerWhat tests did your doctor do, and what was this experience like? I had...
Yvonne Hunt
Breast Cancer
My Diagnosis Story
What symptoms led up to your diagnosis? Bleeding hole in the breastWhat tests did your doctor do, and what was this experience like? None - after 2 years referred to Breast InstituteBreast...
Lori Leed
Breast Cancer
Diagnosis Doomsday
You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only option. 2 days before Christmas, I got the results of a very typical yearly mammography. They usually call to...
