My name is Regina and I am a breast cancer survivor and this is my story. I had went to the doctor for a regular exam and I told the doctor that I had a lump and wanted her to check it. Remind you that I started having mammograms at the age of 25 for fibrocystic breasts. I was thinking that was what it was not cancer. When the doctor went out of my room I could her saying that she wanted a mammogram and ultra sound stat. I knew something was wrong then. When I got the results from the mammogram and ultra sound came back that it was cancer. I remember sitting in the room with my sister and was in so much disbelief. I thought I was healthy and lived a good life that I could not get cancer. They said at the beginning that it was stage 1 after my first lumpectomy. When my pathology report came back I had to have another surgery and they raised me to stage 2 and I needed to have chemotherapy. port put in. I was so scared. I watched my best friend die of the same type of breast cancer I had. I put my faith in god and in the hands of my cancer team. I have now been cancer free for a year now. I will be taking tamoxifin for the next five years. My oncologist is suggesting that I take it for 10 years because of the good results that they are having.

regina thomas
dayton, OH