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  • carmelle
    carmelle Member Posts: 134
    edited December 2010

    bump

  • nan_j
    nan_j Member Posts: 1
    edited December 2010

    7 year anniversary today.  

    Stage II, multifocal, node positive.

  • hopeful34
    hopeful34 Member Posts: 522
    edited December 2010
    Congrats nan_j!  I love hearing success stories. 
  • marlenet
    marlenet Member Posts: 114
    edited December 2010

    Congratulations nan_j !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • nevo84
    nevo84 Member Posts: 55
    edited December 2010

    Love this thread and excited how this is active for such a long time. My uncle's wife was dx about ten years ago at 35. She had two tumors in right breast with nodes involvement and another tumor in left breast. She is planning for her next ten years.

    My mom's friend was dx 12 years ago with nodes involvement. She had chemo, rads and mastectomy. She is doing really fine.

    When we are in hospital for my mothers mastectomy a nurse came to her and told her sister I am 14 years survivor with nodes involvment. I'm doing just fine... 

  • toni30
    toni30 Member Posts: 68
    edited January 2011

    This is a great thread - thanks!  I have a co-worker who had a mast 15 years ago (at age 55) and she is doing great today - happy and positive.  Hugs to everyone.

  • heathermcd
    heathermcd Member Posts: 21
    edited January 2011
    When  I first came to BCO this was the only thread I could look at without bawling my eyes out. This thread is what gave me hope. Today I met a 17 - year BC survivor. She came to talk to me at work and just wanted to share as a side note that she never thought she would live past the 5 year mark. She was triple negative. She now lobbies congress for money for breast cancer research!
  • carmelle
    carmelle Member Posts: 134
    edited January 2011

    Hi heather...see our stats r similar. glad u found this thread! is still read from time to time.

  • marlenet
    marlenet Member Posts: 114
    edited January 2011

    bump

  • Maureen813
    Maureen813 Member Posts: 1,826
    edited January 2011

    My grandmother had BC when she was 20 yrs. old. She had mastectomy, radical in those days. I think it was referred to the Halston procedure?  Anyway, no recon back then (1920's), met a man, had two children, traveled the world and lived till she was 93 yrs. young.  No chemo/no rads just the removal.  I do remember her with the sleeves she would replace every year religiously.  I wish I could talk to her today, I admire her.

  • heathermcd
    heathermcd Member Posts: 21
    edited January 2011

    Maureen - Thank you so much for sharing about you grandmother. As someone also diagnosed in their 20's my biggest fear is not living a long full life! I so appreciate your story!!

  • divinemrsm
    divinemrsm Member Posts: 6,614
    edited January 2011

    Having just begun my journey, these stories are providing inspiration and hope...I try to read several pages whenever I have time.....thanks to all posters.

  • Dominika
    Dominika Member Posts: 22
    edited February 2011

    Carmelle: i have similar diagnosis as Yours.  on May 26 i'm going to celebrate my first anniversary but really envy You to have so many happy years after diagnosis. I'm praying to God that it will happen to me too. I'm only 27 and really would like to see my little boy growing up. He's only two now.

  • carmelle
    carmelle Member Posts: 134
    edited February 2011

    thx dominika...i was 35 with lump, 38 at diagnosis with two babes 1 and 3. it was very hard. put your head down, get through treatment, be easy on yourself. hugs.

    It will be 8 years for me Mar 7.

  • Nico1012
    Nico1012 Member Posts: 1,152
    edited February 2011

    Most deserving of a BUMP!

  • Dominika
    Dominika Member Posts: 22
    edited February 2011

    :)

  • kriskat
    kriskat Member Posts: 116
    edited February 2011

    Wow! These stories are so encouraging.  I am just starting my journey and was feeling down!  Glad to find this thread!

  • marlenet
    marlenet Member Posts: 114
    edited February 2011

    Someone here at work-well his mother had breast cancer and lived to be 95!  She was 45 at the time she found out.

  • beacon800
    beacon800 Member Posts: 47
    edited February 2011

    My great aunt had bc when she was 53.  This was in the early 1960s and the treatments were rudimentary.  She had mastectomy and I imagine it was a big one since they did things like that back then.  Anyhow, she lived til age 83 and I am sure she would have lived longer except she was a lifetime smoker.  She had a great life, played golf with her friends and was quite well up til the time she died.  It can  be done!

  • carmelle
    carmelle Member Posts: 134
    edited February 2011

    bump

  • msphil
    msphil Member Posts: 185
    edited March 2011

    Hello ALL, I am a 17 year cancer survivor(Praise the LORD), I was diagnosed in the middke of planning my 2nd wedding and my Fiancee(now my HUSBAND) stuck by me and I had the opportunity to have a Lumpectomy but was also told back then my  chances for reocurrence would be higher,  SO I opted for Mastectomy(L), and I have been cancer free since, with Lots Of Prayers, Lots of HOPE, and Lots of Postive thinking, I,m here and I pray for US ALL each day as you are Family.  God Bless .msphil

  • marlenet
    marlenet Member Posts: 114
    edited March 2011

    Congratulations msphil! 

  • hope-is-all-i-have
    hope-is-all-i-have Member Posts: 2
    edited March 2011

    Hi all

    I am my mothers mouthpiece here. My mom was diagnosed in Feb 2009 and consequently she went through mastectomy-chemo-radiation and is now on hormonal therapy since March 2010. She had NED on her first PET-CT scan back in April 2010. Yay! Now, we have another one scheduled this April. So yes, its been positive all the way through and she is feeling healthy, though there are joint pains.

    I do not know if you guys know about this fairly recent development in cancer research. It looks promising. here are the links:

    David Agus: A new strategy in the war on cancer

    Danny Hillis: Understanding cancer through proteomics

    regards..and keep fighting!  

  • carmelle
    carmelle Member Posts: 134
    edited March 2011

    bump!

  • carmelle
    carmelle Member Posts: 134
    edited April 2011

    bump...

  • Aussie-Sharon
    Aussie-Sharon Member Posts: 45
    edited April 2011

    Great thread, added previously but back again...coming up to 9 years since diagnosis this year!

    I am now 49 my boys have grown into young men and both qualified tradesmen now. 

    Brad and I are looking forward to many more years of adventures together and I'll be back next year for my big 10 year since diagnosis and my 50th Birthday!!! I don't mind birthdays at all so 50 won't be oh no I'm getting so old for me, it'll be WOW 50 that's great, looking forward the next 50.

     Stay well everyone and all the best.

    Sharon

  • torigirl
    torigirl Member Posts: 748
    edited April 2011

    Thank you Aussie Sharon...I can't wait to be where you are so I can come back here and share!  God bless you!

    Tori 

  • carmelle
    carmelle Member Posts: 134
    edited April 2011

    great news aussie sharon!

  • jezza
    jezza Member Posts: 295
    edited April 2011

    Have also posted on here some time back.

    I passed my 19 year mark in January. This is a great thread Carmelle.

    Haven't needed to have my implants changed either. I had no idea they would last this long!

    jezza

  • marlenet
    marlenet Member Posts: 114
    edited April 2011

    bump

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