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After a suspicious mammogram in December of 2002, I had a biopsy. When I was told I had breast cancer, I went to a free second opinion Breast Cancer Clinic to gather more information before deciding on my treatment. I was all too familiar with cancer after taking care of my mother who had breast cancer, my late fiancé who died from kidney cancer, my father who had skin cancer and lymphoma, and my sister-in-law who passed away from breast cancer. My cancer was only in one breast but I had the doctors take both. The surgery showed the other breast was pre-cancerous, and had I not removed it, the cancer would have been back in a year.

You have to laugh at yourself to keep yourself from going crazy.

Stay positive and surround yourself with positive family and friends. I try to eat healthy, laugh, and take it one day at a time. Cancer helped me find an inner strength that I didn’t know was there. Today, I find great comfort in sharing my experience with recently diagnosed women in order to help them through it.

- Martha