If you live with breast cancer, love someone with breast cancer or worry about your risk for breast cancer, you are part of a global community of women and men whose lives have been touched by the disease. We asked our readers to share insights from their experiences with breast cancer.
Browse their stories to find people like you and join the conversation. I found my lump. I was doing my monthly breast exam in the shower. I had actually done it just three days before and found nothing, but for some unknown reason I did it again. There it was in my right breast, a lump the size of a pea.
I kept touching it, as if it would suddenly not be there, but there it remained, ever steady. The biopsies were difficult. I left the diagnostic center determined not to cry, and my husband, confused and scared, simply led me out the door.
I got about 50 feet away and burst into sobs. I had never been so terrified in my life. Five days later, I was coming up from the subway at 49th Street and had a voice mail message.
Please call me today at the office. But if you get this after 4 p. Years after, I am a stronger woman than I ever thought I could be. I lost my hair. So what? I gained a spiritual core. I, for the first time in many years had to put myself first; before the kids, before my husband, before everything. What would you do? For the first week of appointments, I referred to myself in the third person. The most difficult part was when our insurance company refused to pay for my triple lumpectomy because I had a three-part procedure.
