Twenty years ago I was a sixteen-year-old sophomore living a normal high school life. I was on the swim team and the lacrosse team and liked to hang out with my friends. The only thin...

I tell people all the time that I got cancer for my 23rd birthday. Two days before my birthday I heard the words that changed my life for ever: "Dana, I'm afraid you have cancer." Man...

In June 2001, I was so excited with life. My first son was 8 months old, I was pregnant with my second, and things couldn''t have been better.

That is when I found...

I was diagnosed in 1990 at age 30 with Stage 3 Breast Cancer. Because of my age and approximated size of my tumor (9 cm), I started with chemotherapy every two weeks for 16 weeks. At ...

My husband and I tried for two years to get pregnant. We found out that we were going to have a baby one month before my 30th birthday. What a great birthday present. The next 3 month...

Five years ago my life was normal. I had a wonderful husband; two adorable, lovable children, Chase age two and one-half and Maddie, age eight months; a nine year old stepdaughter; a ...

Zusan's Story
by Zusan Stelligwerf

My name is Zusan Stellingwerf, I'm 36 years old, and just had a mastectomy. I found my lump when I was six months pregnant. M...

In March 2000, I found my lump. I was reading in Women's Day Magazine about the importance of doing breast self exams. I really felt like it was important for me to begin. Even though I was only 2...

Too often I have heard the lament of a friend or a relative over the minor inconveniences they have experienced in their lives and it's at these times that I take advantage of the opportunity and ...

I was 27 years old and about 20 weeks pregnant. It was the holidays and things could not have been better! Then lying in bed one night, I felt a strange lump. I did not think it was anything terri...

My husband, Matt, and I had been married four years when we decided to start our family and were lucky enough to get pregnant quickly. We were thrilled and nervous about being first-t...

I live in Argentina and I am very happy to find a place like the YSC, where you do not feel so alone, and can discuss and share your experience with someone who can understand perfectly what you a...

Pregnant, 29 Year Old, Mother of One with Breast Cancer

My life was just perfect! In July of 2002, I gave birth to my first child, a beautiful baby bo...

Imagine being 30, pregnant and diagnosed with breast cancer. Well, that is me. When I was 26 weeks pregnant, I felt a lump in my left breast. I went to my obstetrician and discussed my lump with h...

It was just 2 months after my 30th birthday. It was November 25th, Thanksgiving Eve, 1998. It had been an ordinary day - I had just come home from work. I went into my bedroom to change from my wo...

Kim's Story - Entry #1 - February 14, 2002

It's been almost three weeks since I first heard those words - " You have breast cancer." You think it can't happen to you. You say, I'm 30, I'm h...

Early last spring my family was in the midst of planning for a very happy event. My daughter, Lynn, was engaged to be married in September to a wonderful guy. Lynn and Scott knew almost from their...

I had been feeling run down for about two months. I had a fever and I was tired. I figured it was a cold. Or flu. Or mono. Or something to that effect, I thought. Then I realized that my armpit wa...

On September 4th, 2002, I was diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer (IBC). At the time I was 32 years old and 23 weeks pregnant with my first baby. It is hard to describe my feelings at that t...

Brian and I were engaged on Christmas Eve, 1999. In 2000, I spent the better part of my time arranging our wedding. I was 32 years old. The date for the wedding was set for March 31st 2001.

I was 34 years old and 21 weeks pregnant when diagnosed with Stage II invasive breast cancer on October 10th, 2001. Since breast & ovarian cancer runs in my family on my Mom''s side (aunts, gr...

One out of every 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer. All during the month of September, 1993, I heard that on the radio and TV. I wondered to myself "out of my circle of friends, who wil...

My story begins like too many others. I was 31 when I was diagnosed with Stage II Breast cancer, yes, only 31. I had always considered myself low risk, I was young, no family histor...

On Sunday, February 3, 2008, I found out I had cancer. Not because a doctor told me, but because my soon-to-be one-year-old daughter pressed on my left breast while we were playing, a...

Hello, my name is Catina, and I was 27 years old when I found a lump on my left breast and five months pregnant with my fourth son. I thought the world was coming to a end. What about...

I had just turned 20, and my husband and I just had our 2nd little boy. If it wasn't for him I would have never thought to check myself. After m...

I was diagnosed in Jan. of 2002. I remember that worse day of my life so vividly. It was a Monday, and my 18-month-old son Dallas was sick. We had been at the ER all the night before,...

I am writing this to heal. I am writing this because maybe, some night at 1 o'clock in the morning, someone like me will be searching the internet for a story like theirs that ends wi...

Sometimes, you just know. Call it women's intuition, whatever you want. Sometimes you just know when something is really wrong. There's that churning in your stomach, or the tingling ...

It seems weird to be writing this. No matter how much I have been through or how many surgeries I have, the ongoing testing, support meetings and fundraisers, there are times that I f...

My child saved my life.

After finding a mass in my left breast before my first OB appointment, I was eager to have her tell me what it was. My breast, already tend...

Here is a link to my story as well as the story itself.
Connie Andrews

Nobody ever wants to hear that they have cancer. They certainly do not want to hear it when they are 4 months pregnant. That is what happened to me. I was living my life as a mommy of...

My name is Gail. I am a seven year cancer survivor! I was diagnosed on May 16th 2001, 1 week before my 31st birthday. I never thought at the age of 30 I would hear the words, "You hav...

Hi… my story starts, I think, at the beginning of 2008. I suppose the long version could start about 8 years ago, but I will keep it short. January of 2008 included a new place, a new...

Here we are, my Husband just getting a promotion from Alabama to Georgia in November, we find out we are pregnant again in December and we have just moved on December 5th of 2008 to t...

Now that my hair has grown back in and I cover up the newly added gray hairs, my eyes are once again framed by eyelashes and I am back putting in 18 hour days as an attorney, wife, an...

I was diagnosed when I was 36 years old and 34 weeks pregnant. It was the summer of 2006 and my husband and I were excited about the pending arrival of our baby girl. I found a large ...

I met with the doctor immediately following my first sonogram and mammogram, and heard the words "I don't like the way this looks. I think there's a good chance it is cancer." Life wa...

I have been fighting for my life since the moment I was born… literally. I was born in 1967 premature with a very serious lung condition called Hyaline Membrane Disease. I obviously m...

My story starts out similar to so many others on here; the ending is just a little more unique....

April 10, 2002 was a morning like any other. I awoke to the soun...

My name is Michele and I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer March 24th of 2008. It came to me as a complete shock because I was a month away from my 35th birthday and I had no family hi...

I was 31 years old when I was told I would not live long enough to see my then 3 year-old-daughter grow up. The day after my cancer was confirmed I learned I was pregnant. My son was ...

My story begins in late April 2007. While on vacation with my family in Florida, I first discovered the lump in my left breast. I had shooting pains so sudden and so sharp I had to gr...