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So I wonder if anyone else spent part of Tuesday, May 14, 2013, pondering what they would do. Would they take the test to learn if they were at increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer? What if it came back positive? ...
While one would expect members of Mayo Clinic's department of neurology to support community events, you'd probably assume it would be related to things like Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's or Lou Gerhig's disease (also known as ALS). But breast cancer? Indeed. ...
Thousands are preparing to lace up their sneakers for the sixth annual 26.2 with Donna: The National Marathon to Finish Breast Cancer on Sunday, February 17, 2013, and in doing so, supporting ongoing research (PDF) at Mayo Clinic related to breast ...
"I think it's cancer," are not words that anyone, especially a 29 year old nurse recently relocated to Arizona, expects to hear. Jennifer McGoldrick faced these words and the eventual diagnosis of breast cancer shortly after moving to Scottsdale to continue ...
My name is Ardyth Carpenter, and in 1982, I went to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, after experiencing a TIA. While there, Mayo's work up discovered a malignancy in my right breast. I had no ill effects from the "mini-stroke" ...
Sharon Francis was working on a new design collection when the pain started. "I thought it was just a bad headache," she says. "Then I fainted in the elevator."
Years of raising awareness for breast cancer could not have prepared Barbra Riley for the devastating words she heard just over a year ago – "You have breast cancer." Barbra had dedicated her time and energy to promoting breast cancer awareness through ...
Henry Corral had always enjoyed a full life in Arizona – staying fit, spending time with his family and working in the high tech industry. In March of 2011, his life turned upside down. He received a diagnosis that few ...
A mother and her three daughters – all diagnosed with breast cancer. Kathleen O'Brien shares her family's history battling a disease which eventually took her mother's life and now has struck three more times. Kathleen and her sisters, Angel and Brenda, ...
Having never been touched by any kind of cancer in any generation of my family, it came as a shock to learn of my breast cancer diagnosis confirmed at Mayo Clinic January 2012. I felt I was going through seven ...
Deborah Maina is on a mission to educate women about breast cancer. Growing up in the village of Embu in Kenya, where healthcare information was not common, Maina, 43, a breast cancer survivor, is committed to bring education to her ...
By Annemieke van der Werff At the end of March 2010, my husband and I returned from a wonderful trip through India. During the trip I had noticed a swollen lymph node in my left armpit. At first I didn't ...
Tamieko, a 38 year old woman, was completely caught off guard when she was diagnosed with Stage I/II breast cancer in December 2010. After two years of observing suspicious changes in her breast that appeared normal on mammograms, she requested ...
Toni Kay Mangskau makes a living helping patients from around the world learn about the latest cancer research. Mangskau, 45, a clinical trials referral coordinator at Mayo Clinic's Cancer Education Center in Rochester, Minn., never imagined she would one day ...
The below article comes from our Sharing Mayo Clinic print publication: "It isn't a big article," Kristie Naines says when asked about her appearance in the October issue of Good Housekeeping. "It's just a few paragraphs." She's being modest. It's ...
The moment finally came. But it was an uneasy one at first. MaryEllen Sheppard was about to receive her last round of chemotherapy at Mayo Clinic, with friends and family by her side. But as her loved ones and her ...
From the moment MaryEllen Sheppard was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer, she wondered how she developed cancer. Her ancestors, she said, tended to live long, healthy lives. And other than a cousin, she wasn't aware of anyone else in ...
When you last saw MaryEllen Sheppard in Episode 2, she spoke about how she was beginning to lose her hair. After two rounds of chemotherapy, MaryEllen said she was beginning to lose clumps at a time. She knew the day was coming. ...
Pansy Parker of Goodyear, Ariz., has been celebrating her cancer-free "five-year-mark" with a little partying and a lot of faith. "I just thank God so much for the five-year benchmark," said the ebullient 73-year-old, who threw a party and invited ...
Like many women facing breast cancer, MaryEllen Sheppard had concerns over how she would feel after her chemotherapy treatments. Would she be able to go to work? Would the chemotherapy leave her feeling ill and exhausted? How long would it ...
Jacksonville and Robin Wahby were both much different 20 years ago, when Mrs. Wahby arrived in Florida. The city had no professional football team and all the prominence and economic development that come with that. And Mrs. Wahby — then ...
MaryEllen Sheppard knew something was wrong as soon as she felt a thickened patch of skin on her right breast. She didn't feel a lump, but knew the change was different enough to get it checked out. A mammogram and ...
Inspiration comes in many forms – for Irma Poznecki, a 45-year-old mother of three from Anthem, Ariz., it was brownies and cupcakes. In late 2009, Irma was diagnosed with breast cancer. The news came as an obvious shock to Irma ...
Joan Dymand-Hintz was in her early 40′s when she became pregnant with her daughter. The happiness she and her husband Marc Hintz felt was short-lived. A week after learning she was pregnant, Joan, a Scottsdale, Arizona-based singer and mother of ...
This story was submitted by Nimaat Al Azzah, Breast Cancer Survivor and Mayo Clinic Patient Life is full of surprises — some are happy and some can flip one's world all around. In October, on my 37th wedding anniversary, I ...
Editor's note: This story was submitted by Sheila Robb, a Mayo Clinic patient from Minneapolis. I was at Mayo a couple of months ago to start planning for a new treatment. The breast cancer that had metastasized 2 ½ years ...
Pam N from Michigan submitted her story via email this week, saying: "I am sharing my Mayo Clinic story with you in hopes that it will help other women who may be diagnosed with Inflammatory Breast Cancer. Inflammatory Breast Cancer ...
Running a 26.2 mile marathon is a fulfilling experience for anyone. Doing so on the first anniversary of your breast cancer diagnosis makes it even more special. When 40-year old Kim Loving of St. Augustine, Florida learned she had estrogen ...
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