Early Detection Saved My Life

It all started in Oct 2012, I work for a Urology office and we call a local Imaging office on a regular basis to schedule patients for Imaging tests all the time and I was reminded it was Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I decided its been a few years I should get checked. So I made my appointment. Heck it would only take a few minutes. Well that Friday my mammo that I thought would only take about 15-20 minutes ended up taking 2 hours, as they worked me in for a more intense mammo and then an ultrasound. And by the time we were done with the ultrasound, we were scheduling a biopsy. The biopsy came back positive for Stage 1 cancer and it was a small 1 mm lump. But if I would have waited until I felt it, it probably would have been into Stage 4, & maybe spread further. Luckily I had a lumpectomy and only radiation. And now CANCER FREE, So ladies please go routinely for your annual mammograms. Early Detection Saves Lives. And if a doctor tells you, they don't do mammograms before age 50, goto another doctor. I'm only 44, was diagnosed at 43, no family history. Early Detection Saves Lives, Get Your Annual Mammograms Done!

Marlo Sullivan
Leesburg, FL