I am a 4-yr survivor. Just got my yearly mammogram last Friday and waiting on results. I know they say now that you should only have one every 2 years if previous ones have been clear and there is no history of BC in your family. However, I fell into this category and wasn't going to have my yearly one, but was going to wait another year. Well, the card came in the mail reminding me to make an appointment for my yearly one. So, I said OK, keep them off my back. That's when they found something, confirmed by a biopsy. I had Stage 1. Had a lumpectomy and radiation. No telling what I would have needed if I had waited that extra year. Don't put your mammogram off!
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It's way too easy to think it won't happen to you, but it could. It happened to me - twice. Cervical and breast. Get your Paps, mammos and colonoscopies - they may be uncomfortable, but they save lives!
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Originally Posted by Dianne10
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Remember Oct is breast cancer awareness month.
Please remember to get mamograms. I am a one year and 6 month survivor. |
Yep! Go gett'em. It only hurts for a little while and the treatments are so much worse!
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I was so mad at my mammo tech two years ago when she even bruised my collarbone with that machine, but she found something early, and I am nearly two years out from my diagnosis. Worth it for sure.
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I am a survivor of breast cancer, 26 years and counting.
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Congrats!!!! for me, it's 3 1/2 yrs
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You go Girls!!!
I'm still fighting. Was diagnosed in 2008, came back in 2010 and again this past June. I'm considered Stage 4 now. BUT that doesn't mean the fight is over. A few minutes of discomfort is worth it! |
interesting summer-went for the yearly squish and squash-tech saw 'something'-did an ultrasound-nothing-but she persisted and they did a biopsy-came back positive for LCIS-had a partial mastectomy-go back in 6 months for a recheck.
I am glad it was caught early and that it was taken care of immediately. Do get the exam-it is worth your life. |
2 years cancer free!!! Mammograms are part of my yearly thing to do!
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