“… I Decided To Be Proactive.” Why Angelina Jolie (And I) Chose To Remove Our Own Breasts
Photo credit: Creative Commons ThisParticularGreg “… I Decided To Be Proactive.” Why Angelina Jolie (And I) Chose To Remove Our Own Breasts I’m waking up this morning to headline making news.. Actress Angelina Jolie revealed in a New York Times Op-Ed piece that she quietly had a preventive mastectomy a few weeks ago. While the [...]
Read More →Survivor Stories: Leslie Haywood
Survivor Stories: Leslie Haywood How did you first find out you had cancer? To answer that question fully, I have to go back a few years. My first introduction to breast cancer was in 1989 when at the tender age of 16 my 30 something year old parents sat my sisters and I down for [...]
Read More →Survivor Stories: Josette Chambers
Survivor Stories: Josette Chambers How did you first find out you had cancer? I was headed home to California for Christmas; my sister who’d been battling “the beast” for 8 years ~ and winning ~ woke up one Saturday and had a hard time breathing. The cancer had returned with a vengeance and, per her [...]
Read More →Survivor Stories: Jessica Aguirre (1981 – 2012)
Survivor Stories: Jessica Aguirre (1981 – 2012) We have really heavy hearts around here this morning. We are so saddened to report that one of the women we featured in last month’s Survivor Stories lost her battle with breast cancer last week. Jessica Aguirre, a mother of two young boys, was gracious enough to share with us a [...]
Read More →Survivor Stories: Thank You!
Hello, Everybody! It’s November. We made it. Now I know some of us have had a harder time than others getting here due to all the devastation in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, but hopefully we are all making it through with our families beside us. We wanted to start this month thanking you [...]
Read More →Survivor Stories: Judith Kolich
Survivor Stories: Judith Kolich How did you first find out you had cancer? I found a lump during a breast self-exam in 1995 and I asked my husband for advice. At the time, I didn’t think it was anything—there was no history of breast cancer in my family—but my husband said that I should get [...]
Read More →Survivor Stories: Catherine Fromprovich
Survivor Stories: Catherine Fromprovich How did you first find out you had cancer? My diagnosis was made by FDA-approved Thermography, not mammography. Thermography detects heat in cancer cells quicker than a mammogram, even years before a mammogram is capable. I had two cancerous tumors in my right breast. How did you react when you heard [...]
Read More →Survivor Stories: Tari Prinster
Survivor Stories: Tari Prinster How did you first find out you had cancer? At the age of 56, I felt a lump in my right breast. My doctor recommended a biopsy. It was in a location where I had had several benign cysts before – so I was not nervous. The surprising results came in [...]
Read More →Survivor Stories: Marion Pollock
Survivor Stories: Marion Pollock How did you first find out you had cancer? I had a mammogram. Before I found out I had cancer, I didn’t even know how I was going to get screened. I had a client at the nail salon where I work who volunteered at the Komen South Florida Affiliate, and she referred [...]
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