Survivor Stories
Do you have a story to tell? Has Breast Cancer affected your life in some way? We want to know, and you can remain completely anonymous. Submit your story online to be reviewed and placed on this page. What you've seen or experienced could help someone else.
I still remember the day, over a year ago now, when I was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 31. It was the Monday of midterm\'s week in my second year of business school. I was over $100,000 into de...
This past November, I was examining my breasts in my bathroom mirror.
I noticed a small, round growth protruding from my right breast. I decided that I would wait a few months to see if it went away...
My name is Carlos Adames and I invite you all to join me as I continue my mission to make a difference in the lives of people affected by Cancer.
On January 11th 2004 my Aunt Marie was diagnosed te...
The Princess and the Pea
We caught it early - it was the size of a pea. After finding the pea accidentaly while playing with my breasts, I had mammograms, sonograms, a needle-core-sample biopsy and...
The diagnosis of breast cancer is devastating news at any age. When I was diagnosed at 23 every part of me changed. Facing a life threatening illness before I ever graduated from college threw my life...
I was really afraid of turning 27 because this was the same age my mom also got her first diagnosis of breast cancer when I was 5 at the time. I always had a weird feeling that I too would be given t...
Heather - January 1, 2006
One month ago I just had a mastectomy, I am only 17 years old and I’m looking for some hope that even at an age this young I can still have a normal life because so far it has been anything but. No on...
I have a very high history of breast cancer on my mom’s side. My grandmother was diagnosed with it, a couple of my mom’s sisters had it, and my mom passed away when I was 18 of a brain aneurysm, but s...
Way back in 1998, I became involved with B4BC while I was teaching snowboarding in Lake Tahoe on my time off from college. At the time, volunteering seemed like something fun to do on my time off wor...
My name is Rachel Edelstein and I’m from San Diego, CA. I attended Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ. During my senior year of college, my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. She was 52 a...
I never understood why I couldn’t sleep that night. Was it the sticky, humid weather that had rolled over the tri-state area, the reoccurring dream of the tornado whisking me away into the unknown, o...
