Surgery for Breast Cancer: 559 Real Stories
559 stories match breast cancer and surgery. 392 of them mention chemotherapy.
Breast Cancer: Ute’s Survivor Story
Ute Schuhmacher was 63 when she looked back on 17 years with breast cancer and recurrence. Her first diagnosis came in 1996, when her children were still young. Fear for them was one of her greatest worries. Several operations were needed from the beginning…
Read this storyBreast Cancer: Sonja’s Patient Story
Sonja Zeiss-Wengler was 51 when she described breast cancer diagnosed at the end of 2006. She had been under regular gynecologic monitoring because of a hard area in the breast. When her gynecologist noticed that something had changed, she was referred for…
Read this storyBreast Cancer: Elke’s Survivor Story
Elke Ferch was 66 at the time of her interview and had first been diagnosed with breast cancer in 1991. The diagnosis came as a shock, especially because she was still a young woman and had to face losing a breast. Surgery removed her right breast and about…
Read this storyBRCA2 Breast Cancer: Heiner’s Survivor Story
Heiner Töpfer was 66 at the time of his interview. In 2011, he accidentally felt a lump in his breast and went to the gynecologist of his then partner. Ultrasound and biopsy showed a malignant tumor. A CT scan found that the tumor was locally limited, which…
Read this storyBRCA2 Breast Cancer: Tanja’s Patient Story
Tanja Auer was 46, married, and a mother when she looked back on 2 breast cancer diagnoses. In March 2012, after feeling a lump in her breast, a biopsy confirmed breast cancer. The diagnosis felt overwhelming, but she asked for a week to think before moving…
Read this storyBreast Cancer: Silke’s Survivor Story
Silke Winter was 51 at the time of her interview and had been diagnosed with breast cancer in 2014/2015. She first noticed a soft, unusual area on the right side of her breast, but she was reassured that it did not seem worrying. Only later, after returning…
Read this storyBreast Cancer Patient Story
A woman was diagnosed with breast cancer after testing in December. At first, the diagnosis brought shock and confusion. She blamed herself and worried that her own choices had caused the cancer, and her daughter also struggled with guilt. Then, as admission…
Read this storyBreast Cancer Survivor Story
About 5 years earlier, a woman learned that the results of a health check were concerning. She was encouraged to face the results directly and receive treatment. Further testing confirmed cancer, described as early-stage disease. Because it had been found…
Read this storyStage IV Breast Cancer Patient Story
A woman was diagnosed with Stage IV breast cancer and had surgery, but the adrenal metastasis could not be removed and remained in place. She went through one standard treatment after another. At times, bowel obstruction led to several hospitalizations…
Read this storyStage I HR-Positive Breast Cancer Patient Story
On April 17, 2008, a woman’s husband noticed a lump in her right breast. She went to a clinic with mammography, where the lump could also be felt on examination. Cytology soon showed a strong suspicion of malignancy, and she was referred to a hospital…
Read this storyStage I Breast Cancer: Jess’s Patient Story
Jess was 54 when breast cancer was found after her sister encouraged her to get a mammogram because of her age. She had not noticed symptoms, so the Stage I diagnosis came as a shock. Fear, sadness, grief, loneliness, and worry hit quickly, and the experience…
Read this storyBreast Cancer Patient Story
This woman had been living with breast cancer for 7.5 years after her first diagnosis. During that time, the cancer recurred or metastasized twice. Early on, she approached surgery and treatment with a practical mindset, telling herself that the diagnosis had…
Read this storyStage I Breast Cancer: Kacey’s Survivor Story
Kacey was 39 when a scheduled mammogram found a small lump. She had not noticed other symptoms, and the result came suddenly: Stage I breast cancer. The diagnosis made her feel frightened, worried, powerless, vulnerable, and disillusioned. She responded by…
Read this storyBreast Cancer Patient Story
Shortly after registering her marriage, this woman was diagnosed with breast cancer. She and her husband had been visiting travel salons while planning a small overseas wedding and honeymoon, so the diagnosis arrived at what should have been one of the…
Read this storyStage I Breast Cancer: Kelly’s Survivor Story
Kelly was 75 when Stage I breast cancer was found after she moved to a new area and registered with a new local GP. As part of that check-up process, she was recommended for a mammogram, which led to the diagnosis. She had also experienced pain, but the…
Read this storyStage III Breast Cancer: Kim’s Survivor Story
Kim A. was 49 when she shared her Stage III breast cancer experience. More than 3 years earlier, a sharp, shooting pain in her right breast led her to notice a lump. Mammogram, ultrasound, and biopsies confirmed Stage III breast cancer with lymph node…
Read this storyStage I Breast Cancer Patient Story
A woman in her 40s had her first mammogram and learned she had Stage I breast cancer. Because of the diagnosis, she underwent a total mastectomy. After surgery, she continued with hormone therapy. The physical treatment was only part of the experience. Losing…
Read this storyStage II Breast Cancer Patient Story
A woman was 38 in June 2007 when her partner felt a large lump in her breast and encouraged her to make a hospital appointment. A mammogram did not show a problem, and the first doctor sounded reassuring, but ultrasound clearly showed the mass. Further…
Read this storyBreast Cancer Patient Story
A woman had already completed chemotherapy and surgery for breast cancer and had returned to work when a 1-year postoperative checkup brought upsetting news: the cancer had spread to lymph nodes. The recurrence did not shock her in the same way as the…
Read this storyStage I Breast Cancer Survivor Story
A daughter described her mother's breast cancer being found after a company health check in April 2009 recommended further testing. A local doctor saw a white shadow in the left breast and first considered calcification, but sent her to a larger hospital to…
Read this storyBreast Cancer Survivor Story
A man treated for breast cancer had already lived more than 10 years after his first surgery. During that long follow-up period, doctors sometimes found areas suspicious enough to require detailed tissue testing, but the most recent 6-month check-up showed no…
Read this storyBreast Cancer Survivor Story
A woman found a breast lump herself and had it checked when a breast specialist was visiting a nearby clinic. She was quickly sent to a hospital for testing and was diagnosed with breast cancer. The time from discovery to surgery moved fast, but she felt…
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A 48-year-old woman had left breast-conserving surgery on September 30, 2011. Five days after starting hormone therapy, she was still dealing with the physical aftereffects of treatment, including pain under her arm, side effects from the medication, and a…
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A woman in her 20s found a lump in her breast in June and quickly went for screening. The diagnosis was right breast cancer. She had breast-conserving surgery, but because the lump was fairly large, very little of the breast remained. Seeing the large scar…
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