Thanks everyone for being so caring and supportive, I am so grateful. Got the results back

[Shana]

54. Everyone's Cancer is Different, but

mine, despite my mother, maternal aunt and maternal grandmother all having breast cancer, was not due to any genetic marker. It was caught very early. I had an odd mass in one breast and referred to an oncologist who sent me for an MRI to see what it was. MRI showed cancer in the other breast but not in the original one. Had needle biopsies which confirmed cancer (MRI breast). Surgery was scheduled with lumpectomies and first likely lymph nodes and reconstruction all done at the same time. The surgeries showed no spread to lymph nodes and clean margins around the known cancer. Biopsies confirmed stage 1. The hardest part of the recovery was sleeping at a 45 degree angle for the first week. Pain was minimal and you're completely out for the surgery.

This was followed a couple of months later, after healing, by 3 weeks of radiation and now I'm on an estrogen blocker for 5 years. (The surgery was mid-November 2022)

It doesn't have to be a death sentence. It can be nothing more than an interruption in your routines and life and then things go back to pretty much normal.