Hi, I worked for wonderful lung cancer surgeons for 10 years at a very prominent cancer teaching hospital. It was always everyone else who got cancer, as I spoke to heartbroken patients and families everyday on the phone. Then in August 2009, I ran down the street to another hospital to get my yearly mammogram. The technician performed the test, and after waiting a few minutes, and asked if I could stay and have some repeat films down. No big deal. They they wanted an ultrasound, then the MD came in and said they needed to do a needle biopsy. I said, sure, I am on my lunch hour and I may as well get it done all at once. As I watched the doctor's face as she looked at my films while performing the biopsy, I knew it was cancer because I worked with surgeons and I saw that look before. It turned out to be breast cancer, with a HER+ positive result. I did what the doctors told me---6 rounds of cancer, surgery, then radiation. I did it! My pathology came back excellent! All 22 lymph nodes are cancer free! So have faith out there, it's not over at all if you get diagnosed. There is so much breast cancer research going on all the time. Oh, and if you get a chance to do the Susan Komen Walk for Breast Cancer--do it--it will enlighten your heart like nothing else!

Lynne Christy
West Newton, PA