IT IS WHAT IT IS
I just turned 34, and my three sons and I were moving in with my parents. No marital problems-just a Metaplastic Breast Cancer Diagnosis. We were living in Maryland for about 18 months when i found the lump. While visiting “home” 4th of July, my mother urged me to see a local surgeon for a 2nd opinion. Read the rest of this entry »
Background of this letter-
This is a letter that I wrote in 2006, and sent to various people (Oprah, Dr. Phil, Ellen, Melissa Etheridge, several cancer sites, etc) to try to get SOMEONE to listen to our plea for help.
There is still so little known about metaplastic breast cancer, and very few studies being done. We as a group decided to try to reach out in as many directions as we could find to try to get the information out there. Read the rest of this entry »
This is a journal of my “Cancer Journey” over a 13-month period. I hope this helps anyone in the future who is diagnosed with Metaplastic Breast Cancer (MBC). Love to you all! Marcia Read the rest of this entry »
Hello,
Metaplastic Breast Cancer (MBC)!! Never heard of it, you say? Well, neither had until I was diagnosed a few days after a lumpectomy in May, 2004. I soon learned that it was a carcinoma of the breast which is so rare that it affects less than 1% of women diagnosed with breast cancer and at that time there had been only 65 reported cases in the world. Read the rest of this entry »
Hello,
I’m Donna C., and I’m going to tell you a little of my journey with metaplastic breast cancer.
I found a lump in my left armpit, next to the fullness of the breast. (I later found out that this is called the axillary tail of the breast.) This was on April 1, 2002, and I was 57 years of age at the time. My yearly mammograms had shown nothing unusual.
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Our Beautiful Mom, Wife, Sister, Aunt, and Friend…
Sunday, February 19th, 2006
Today we are celebrating my 25th birthday. Mom is a week out from her third treatment and seems to be doing well. This last week she went in for fluids Monday, Tuesday, and Friday along with her regular shots. Before and during her last treatment they used some different anti-nausea meds, which I think really helped because she was not sick at all in the hospital this time. Tomorrow she plans to go back to work!!! Then next week is the FINAL treatment 
I can tell she just wants to get it over with. The girls from work made hand-made Valentine’s, they are very cute!
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