Filtering by:
Breast CancerBreast Cancer Diagnosis Prompts Survivor to Take Care of Herself
Hashmat Effendi has spent more than 20 years helping children all over the world get medical care that they otherwise couldn’t afford. But it wasn’t until she was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 52 that Effendi says she began taking care of herself.
Bladder and Breast Cancer Survivor Finds Road To Recovery
The third time Judy Halter heard the words, “You have cancer,” she panicked. “I knew there was a possibility that my time here could definitely be shortened,” she said. But even more than her diagnosis of bladder cancer, Halter says she worried about how she was going to get to treatment.
Grateful Breast Cancer Survivor Celebrates 50 Years of Being Cancer-Free
In 1966, the Beatles were dominating the pop music charts, President Lyndon Johnson was in the White House, and Phyllis Foltz was a 30-year-old mom raising two small children.
Life Begins to Return to Normal for Breast Cancer Survivor
Vicky Davis, 55, says she’s finally beginning to feel like herself again. She has only 3 more treatments of Herceptin (trastuzumab) – a targeted therapy drug – to treat her breast cancer and she’s anticipating breast reconstruction surgery in a few months.